English poem
Plain Tales from the Hills/His Chance in Life
Then a pile of heads be laid— Thirty thousand heaped on high— All to please the Kafir maid, Where the Oxus ripples by. Grimly spake Atulla Khan:— "Love hath made this thing a Man."
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