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Never was Iran doom’d to bend
Beneath a yoke of deadlier weight.
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Yet has she hearts, mid all this ill,
O’er all this wreck high buoyant still
With hope and vengeance;—hearts that yet—
Like gems, in darkness, issuing rays
They’ve treasur’d from the sun that’s set,—
Beam all the light of long-lost days!
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it is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
— Sep 30, 2025 04:51PM
Never was Iran doom’d to bend
Beneath a yoke of deadlier weight.
.
Yet has she hearts, mid all this ill,
O’er all this wreck high buoyant still
With hope and vengeance;—hearts that yet—
Like gems, in darkness, issuing rays
They’ve treasur’d from the sun that’s set,—
Beam all the light of long-lost days!
47%
it is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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A wretch, who shrines his lusts in heaven,
And makes a pander of his God;
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If they will crouch to Iran’s foes,
Why, let them—till the land’s despair
Cries out to Heaven, and bondage grows
Too vile for e’en the vile to bear!
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Never—while breath of life shall live
Within them—never to forgive
The’ accursed race, whose ruthless chain
Hath left on Iran’s neck a stain
Blood, blood alone can cleanse again!
— Sep 30, 2025 04:58PM
A wretch, who shrines his lusts in heaven,
And makes a pander of his God;
.
If they will crouch to Iran’s foes,
Why, let them—till the land’s despair
Cries out to Heaven, and bondage grows
Too vile for e’en the vile to bear!
60%
Never—while breath of life shall live
Within them—never to forgive
The’ accursed race, whose ruthless chain
Hath left on Iran’s neck a stain
Blood, blood alone can cleanse again!
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But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
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Who, that midst a desert’s heat
Sees the waters fade away,
Would not rather die than meet
Streams again as false as they?
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It was impossible,he added,not to feel interested in the many glorious but unsuccessful struggles, which had been made by these original natives of Persia to cast off the yoke of their bigoted conquerors
— Sep 30, 2025 04:49PM
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
42%
Who, that midst a desert’s heat
Sees the waters fade away,
Would not rather die than meet
Streams again as false as they?
.
It was impossible,he added,not to feel interested in the many glorious but unsuccessful struggles, which had been made by these original natives of Persia to cast off the yoke of their bigoted conquerors
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In the eleventh year of the reign of Aurungzebe, Abdalla, King of the Lesser Bucharia, a lineal descendant from the Great Zingis, having abdicated the throne in favor of his son, set out on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Prophet; and, passing into India through the delightful valley of Cashmere, rested for a short time at Delhi on his way.
— Sep 30, 2025 04:48PM
In the eleventh year of the reign of Aurungzebe, Abdalla, King of the Lesser Bucharia, a lineal descendant from the Great Zingis, having abdicated the throne in favor of his son, set out on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Prophet; and, passing into India through the delightful valley of Cashmere, rested for a short time at Delhi on his way.
