Kashmiri Song

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2> Kashmiri Song </h2> <p> Pale hands I love beside the Shalimar,<br/> Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?<br/> Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far,<br/> Before you agonise them in farewell?<br/> <br/> Oh, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains,<br/> Holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell,<br/> How the hot blood rushed wildly through the veins<br/> Beneath your touch, until you waved farewell.<br/> <br/> Pale hands, pink tipped, like Lotus buds that float<br/> On those cool waters where we used to dwell,<br/> I would have rather felt you round my throat,<br/> Crushing out life, than waving me farewell!<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />