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Rudyard Kipling - The Captive

2014-11-07 23 Dailymotion

Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining <br />He answered his name at the muster and stood to the chaining. <br />When the twin anklets were nipped on the leg-bars that held them, <br />He brotherly greeted the armourers stooping to weld them. <br />Ere the sad dust of the marshalled feet of the chain-gang swallowed him, <br />Observing him nobly at ease, I alighted and followed him, <br />Thus we had speech by the way, but not touching his sorrow-- <br />Rather his red Yesterday and his regal To-morrow, <br />Wherein he statelily moved to the clink of his chains unregarded, <br />Nowise abashed but contented to drink of the potion awarded <br />Saluting aloofly his Fate, he made haste with his story, <br />And the words of his mouth were as slaves spreading carpets of glory <br />Embroidered with names of the Djinns--a miraculous weaving-- <br />But the cool and perspicuous eye overbore unbelieving. <br />So I submitted myself to the limits of rapture-- <br />Bound by this man we had bound, amid captives his capture-- <br />Till he returned me to earth and the visions departed. <br />But on him be the Peace and the Blessing; for he was greathearted!<br /><br />Rudyard Kipling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-captive/

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