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Testimony: An elegiac poetry account on Battle of Karbala
By: Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
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My sight caught few papers scattered
On the shelf, sunk in time.
I wiped dust cautiously from papers,
So words could remain intact.
Yet, soul energetic and each word
Sustaining therein, though condoling.
And a number of couplets
Each on paper finding reciter.
I pushed the window to let air in
And perched on old window frameās sill, wide and thick...
Tuesday 10th October 2017 3:37 pm
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