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And afterward Roy sat by Baby Akbar's pile of quilts and sang him to sleep with this royal lullaby: "Baby, Baby-ling, You are always King; Always wear a crown, Though you tumble down; Call each thing your own, Find each lap a throne; Dearest, sweetest King, Baby! Baby-ling!"
Though on a much smaller scale, it is of the same type as Akbar's splendid palace in the Agra Fort, and was evidently intended for one of the highest rank in the imperial zanana. The Hathi Pol and Adjoining Buildings. Close under Birbal's house is the main road leading down to the great lake now drained, the embankment of which formed the north-west boundary of the city.
The later publications of the Laureate, in his own distinctive field of verse, embrace "The Lover's Tale" , "Ballads and other Poems" , "Tiresias and Other Poems" , "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" , "Demeter and Other Poems" , and "The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems," in the year of the Poet's death . In these various volumes there is much admirable work and many tuneful lyrics in the old charming, lilting strain, with not a few serious, thoughtful, stately pieces of verse, "the after-glow," as Stedman phrases it, "of a still radiant genius.... His after-song," continues this fine critic, "does not wreak itself upon the master passions of love and ambition, and hence fastens less strongly on the thoughts of the young; nor does it come with the unused rhythm, the fresh and novel cadence, that stamped the now hackneyed measure with a lyric's name.
The dog doubled of a sudden between Akbar's legs and the elephant slid on his rump in the futile effort to turn after him then crashed into the wall opposite Tripe's dismantled shed cannoned off it with a grunt of sheer disgust and set off up-street, once more in hot pursuit. "That brute got my good rum, damn him!" said Tom, opening the stable door. "Hello! Horse down? Any harm done? Right-oh!
Todar Mal held a firm rein, and by throwing hundreds of these faithless officers into prison and by making ample use of bastinado and torture, spread abroad such a wholesome terror that Akbar's reforms were soon victorious.
It is much finer in design than the similar gateway of Akbar's tomb at Sikandra. An Arabic inscription in black marble, of passages taken from the Koran, frames the principal arch, and invites the pure of heart to enter the Gardens of Paradise. The first view of the Taj is from within this noble portal, framed by the sombre shadow of the great arch which opens on to the garden.
And still we cannot call its establishment an absolute failure, for the spirit of tolerance which flowed out from Akbar's religion accomplished infinite good and certainly contributed just as much to lessening the antagonisms in India as did Akbar's social and industrial reforms.
Rajah Birbal was a Brahman minstrel, who came to Akbar's court in the beginning of his reign, and by his wit and abilities gained the Emperor's favour. He was first created Hindu Poet Laureate; from that dignity he was raised to the rank of Rajah, and became one of Akbar's most intimate friends and advisers. Birbal was one of those who subscribed to Akbar's new religion, "The Divine Faith."
The general temper of the period was propitious to the growth and immunity of mixed forms of belief, but the warlike and semi-political character of the Sikh community brought trouble on it. Arjun attracted the unfavourable attention of Akbar's successor, Jehangir, and was cast into prison where he died.
Bairám was stabbed in the back so that the point of the long dagger came out at his breast. The position in India, in the sixth year of Akbar's reign, dating from the battle of Pánípat, but the first of his personal rule, may thus be summarised.
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