The Poetry Corner

Song Of Khan Zada

By Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)

As one may sip a Stranger's Bowl You gave yourself but not your soul. I wonder, now that time has passed, Where you will come to rest at last. You gave your beauty for an hour, I held it gently as a flower. You wished to leave me, told me so, - I kissed your feet and let you go.