 | The Zenana and minor poems of L. E. L. [i.e. Landon] |  |
Deep silence chained the listeners round,
When, lo, another plaintive sound,
Came from the river's side, and there
They saw a girl with loosened hair
Seat her beneath a peepul tree,
Where swung her gurrah mournfully,
Filled with the cool and limpid wave,
An offering o'er some dear one's grave.
At once Zilara caught the tone,
And made it, as she sung, her own.
When, lo, another plaintive sound,
Came from the river's side, and there
They saw a girl with loosened hair
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Where swung her gurrah mournfully,
Filled with the cool and limpid wave,
An offering o'er some dear one's grave.
At once Zilara caught the tone,
And made it, as she sung, her own.
| The Zenana and minor poems of L. E. L. [i.e. Landon] | |