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Not many years ago a King died in one of the Rajpoot States	A
His wives disregarding the orders of the English against Suttee	B
would have broken out of the palace had not the gates been barred	B
But one of them disguised as the King's favourite dancing girl	C
passed through the line of guards and reached the pyre There	D
her courage failing she prayed her cousin a baron of the court	B
to kill her This he did not knowing who she was	E
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Udai Chand lay sick to death	F
In his hold by Gungra hill	G
All night we heard the death gongs ring	H
For the soul of the dying Rajpoot King	H
All night beat up from the women's wing	H
A cry that we could not still	G
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All night the barons came and went	B
The lords of the outer guard	B
All night the cressets glimmered pale	I
On Ulwar sabre and Tonk jezail	I
Mewar headstall and Marwar mail	I
That clinked in the palace yard	B
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In the Golden room on the palace roof	J
All night he fought for air	D
And there was sobbing behind the screen	K
Rustle and whisper of women unseen	K
And the hungry eyes of the Boondi Queen	K
On the death she might not share	D
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He passed at dawn the death fire leaped	B
From ridge to river head	B
From the Malwa plains to the Abu scars	L
And wail upon wail went up to the stars	L
Behind the grim zenana bars	L
When they knew that the King was dead	B
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The dumb priest knelt to tie his mouth	M
And robe him for the pyre	N
The Boondi Queen beneath us cried	B
'See now that we die as our mothers died	B
In the bridal bed by our master's side	B
Out women to the fire '	-
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We drove the great gates home apace	O
White hands were on the sill	I
But ere the rush of the unseen feet	B
Had reached the turn to the open street	B
The bars shot down the guard drum beat	B
We held the dovecot still	I
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A face looked down in the gathering day	B
And laughing spoke from the wall	I
'Oh e they mourn here let me by	P
Azizun the Lucknow nautch girl I	P
When the house is rotten the rats must fly	P
And I seek another thrall	I
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'For I ruled the King as ne'er did Queen	K
To night the Queens rule me	Q
Guard them safely but let me go	R
Or ever they pay the debt they owe	R
In scourge and torture ' She leaped below	R
And the grim guard watched her flee	Q
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They knew that the King had spent his soul	I
On a North bred dancing girl	I
That he prayed to a flat nosed Lucknow god	B
And kissed the ground where her feet had trod	B
And doomed to death at her drunken nod	B
And swore by her lightest curl	I
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We bore the King to his fathers' place	O
Where the tombs of the Sun born stand	B
Where the gray apes swing and the peacocks preen	K
On fretted pillar and jewelled screen	K
And the wild boar couch in the house of the Queen	K
On the drift of the desert sand	B
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The herald read his titles forth	S
We set the logs aglow	R
'Friend of the English free from fear	T
Baron of Luni to Jeysulmeer	T
Lord of the Desert of Bikaneer	T
King of the Jungle go '	-
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All night the red flame stabbed the sky	P
With wavering wind tossed spears	U
And out of a shattered temple crept	B
A woman who veiled her head and wept	B
And called on the King but the great King slept	B
And turned not for her tears	V
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Small thought had he to mark the strife	W
Cold fear with hot desire	T
When thrice she leaped from the leaping flame	X
And thrice she beat her breast for shame	X
And thrice like a wounded dove she came	X
And moaned about the fire	T
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One watched a bow shot from the blaze	Y
The silent streets between	K
Who had stood by the King in sport and fray	T
To blade in ambush or boar at bay	T
And he was a baron old and gray	T
And kin to the Boondi Queen	K
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He said 'O shameless put aside	B
The veil upon thy brow	T
Who held the King and all his land	B
To the wanton will of a harlot's hand	B
Will the white ash rise from the blistered brand	B
Stoop down and call him now '	-
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Then she 'By the faith of my tarnished soul	I
All things I did not well	I
I had hoped to clear ere the fire died	B
And lay me down by my master's side	B
To rule in Heaven his only bride	B
While the others howl in Hell	I
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'But I have felt the fire's breath	F
And hard it is to die	P
Yet if I may pray a Rajpoot lord	B
To sully the steel of a Thakur's sword	B
With base born blood of a trade abhorred '	-
And the Thakur answered 'Ay '	-
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He drew and struck the straight blade drank	Z
The life beneath the breast	B
'I had looked for the Queen to face the flame	X
But the harlot dies for the Rajpoot dame	X
Sister of mine pass free from shame	X
Pass with thy King to rest '	-
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The black log crashed above the white	B
The little flames and lean	K
Red as slaughter and blue as steel	I
That whistled and fluttered from head to heel	I
Leaped up anew for they found their meal	I
On the heart of the Boondi Queen	K

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