For ever the Bulbul in the garden warbles not;
For ever the garden is not green and flourishing;
For ever kings do not reign in unalloyed happiness;
For ever friends each other’s society enjoy not.
_Note as to owl omens._—Certain physical infirmities in man are reckoned
inauspicious, and forbode evil, such as to be blind of one eye. It is
very unlucky to look at a one-eyed man, and even if he should be in a
high position, as was the case a long while ago with a celebrated
chieftain in the North of India, he does not escape a sneer.
When he put an increased tax on the weavers, it is said they taunted him
in the following rhyme:
Jowahur Singh kanah
Thray rupeea khuddee. Panj rupeea tana