New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-02-15


| Light of Asia" and Editor of The London daily
Telegraph, contributes the following touching
poem
Whose tomb have they builded, VittOo under
-, the tanarnd tree,
with its door of the rose-ve med MARBLE and white
49, dome, stately to see;
Was ne holy Brahman, or Gogi, or a King of the
$500 Rajp6t line.
Whose urn rests here bv the river IN the shade of
TINS beautiful shrine I
May it please you." qnoth vittoo, saaaming,
;. Protector of all the Poorw
IL was not Tor holy Brahman they carved that deli
cate door,
Nor for Gogi, nor Rajpnt Rama, did they build this
gem OF our land,
But to tell Of Rap0 woman as long as the stones
should stand!
Her name was Mott, tho pearl-name! Twas far in
But her moon Ike face and her teeth of pearl are
sung OF stu IN our rhymes;
Ana because she was young. and comedy, and OF
good repute and had ad
A babe on the arms of her husband'-the Palace
Nurse she was made
For the sweet chief Queen Of our Rama in Jeyporo
city had died.
Leaving motherless infant the heir of that House
The Her of the Peacock banner, of the Shield OF
49,, Gold. of the Throne.
stood acne;
"To ages when, from the Sunlight the first of our
And had he earth for his footstool. and wore the
stars for bis crown.
As all good Rajpnts have told us, Mott was
prsnd and true.
With the Prince of the Land on her bosom, and her
own brown baby, too!
"And the Rajp1t women will have i'll know not
rsvself. Of these thngs!-
As the two babes lay in her bOsOnl-her lords. and
the JeypOrc Kmgs-
SO lea was the blood of her body. fast the faith
of her heart,
II passed 10 her newborn infant, who took of her
trust its part!
sit would not drink at the breast-milk till the
Prince had drunken his fill
Ii waul MOI sleep 10 the cradle-song till the Prince
was luil-d AVID stll
| And n Law N night with its small arms clasped
round the Raaa's child.
As If those hands OF the rose-leaf could guard him
from treason Wild
For treason was wild in the country. and VILLAIN
Gus men had sought
The life 90 the Heir Of :ho Cab - to the Palace IN
secret brought.
With brides to the base and with kuife-thruss for
the faithful, they found their way
Through the fence of the guards. and the gate
ways, to the hal. where the women lay.
There M6t the Foster Mother, sat singing the
children - rest.
Her ably at play on her knees. and the X Dgs son
held Ia her breast
And the dark save-maidens round her beat low on
Keeping he line of her soft song when, Saheb
there hurried IN
A brcathlc,s watcher who whispered with horror
in ewes and face
oh. Mott. mon come to murder my Lord. the Prince,
In thi. p acc'
They have bongbt tho help % the gate-gnards, or
slaughtered thom unaw1res.
IIark. that - the nolse OF their tuwarsi that
cattcr uuou the stairs!
" For ono breath she caught mp her baby from her
knee 10 her heart. ana let
The kng'~ enid sink from her bosom with lips
still clinginf and wet
Then tore from the Prince his h"ad-coth. and the
purta of pearls from his waist.
And bound the belt on her infant, and the cap on
his brows ia lasteV
With the girdle OF pearls around him, and the cap
that the Kings son woTo;
While close To her hrart-whIch was breaking-shc
folded the Raa'- tov:
And-cven as the Mnrderers lifted the purdah = she
He'd with his boy!
Bnr tser. las they deemed. in his jewels lay the
ChOtn-RaRa. the ilcr.
'Th. COW with two calves has escaped US! one
CREDIT ~ right and fair
She shall save her own butchai no matter the
edge Of "A katarT ends
This spark OF Lord Raghoh1s sunlight! stab thrice
and four tunes, oh friends
" And the Rajpnt women will have i'll know not
That Motifs sou IN the putta and golden cap crooned
low
When the sharp brles pierced to his small heart,
with never "a sIoln or vince.
But died with babes light laughter because he
died for his Prince!
Thereby did that Rajpnt mother preserve the
line of our Kings!"
"Oh Vutoow | SAID. "but they gave her much
gold and beautiful things;
Aud garments, and land tor her people. and home
In the Palace, Nav be
She had grown to love that Prlncellng oven more
than the child on her kneo"
MAY II please the presesceW quoth Vittoo it
seemeth not so; they gave
The gold. and tho gar men and jewels, as much as
the proudest should have;
But. The same night. deep III her bosom sho buried
knife. aud sailed.
Saying this: Il have saved my Rama! ! must go
TO suckle my child"
EDWIN ARNOLD.
Thc Hndoo husband accepts the paternity OF his chid
by receiving %. now born. In hi~ arms.
The Great Raipnt Dynasty IL said 10 10 descended
from the sun himself.
SThe tadi seat Is the name or AL indian lhrOhe
!Indinn sabrcs.