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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fire Feared not the Queen!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Rajput Ratan singh came to the throne<br>of Chittorgarh, the chivalrous land, <br>when Khilji, having all the Northern kings won, <br>turned to West, to put his foes to the brand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Turks made a blockade of the fort<br>to catch Padmini, the marvelous Mewar’s queen, <br>and take to Khilji’s harem, and to distort<br>the pride of Rajputs who in war weren’t mean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By war, the besieging Sultan found no end; <br>“A glance will turn me to Delhi”, he cried.<br>To cease the fight, the wise chose to lend<br>her image, arranging her mien to hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a scaffold amidst a lake<br>the queen of the martial race was to stand<br>and the mad Turk from a mirror had to take <br>the flashed figure of the nymph made by God’s wand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In killing and blinding his kin Khilji revelled.<br>He would seize the wives of vanquished kings<br>and poison his marshals, who his place levelled. <br>He marred the idols in temples and pulled the strings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To avoid bloodshed, Ratan agreed to show<br>a virtual image of the queen to his guest.<br>But the beard-caressing thief got in to mow, <br>the image elegant to give his mind rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A scoundrel’s hunger is never appeased.<br>But within the fort his sword never he drew. <br>The image fair his blazing heart teased. <br>When the host came out, engulfed him the vile crew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ratan got confined in the camp of the tribes<br>which fought for zan(money) , zenana(women) , zamin(land) and gold.<br>Khilji lolled his tongue not for precious bribes<br>but for Padmini, the queen chaste and bold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wise queen sent the Sultan, the news to meet<br>and the bestial Khilji smiled and braced his beard.<br>But fighters in the guise of maids to beat <br>the Turk, went in palanquins, with valour weird.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her uncle Gora ran the blockade and safely freed<br>the king and fought to his grave with mad dogs.<br>The frothy beast stormed the fort again with greed<br>with an added force of looting savage hogs. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The saffron turbaned Rajputs wielded their swords<br>But their wrath to wreak vengeance went in vain.<br>And Rani braved Jouhar(The Pyre) in cries of brave words.<br>Her bewitching frame Khilji’s leer had no gain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chaste women with charm and valour stand apart<br>Whom the brutes base and vile can’t touch.<br>All the victories Khilji got fell short <br>before her victory over fire so much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rajendran+Muthiah">Rajendran Muthiah</a><div class=q>
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