[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Muntakhab al-tawārīkh](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh) › [Muntakhabu-t-tawarikh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig) › 26.9 # Muntakhab al-tawarikh 26.9 Muntakhabu-t-tawārīkh (Ranking, Lowe, Haig) 26.9 - **Language:** English ### [26.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.26.9) Woe is me! Honour them rather out of policy, and on the newly wedded bride of eulogy bind the princely pearl taken from the casket of my heart. Has ever any monarch placed a bond on literary men out of love of empire and usurpation? I, at all events, am a talking parrot, not a hunting falcon; the hawk’s jesses are not rightly placed on the legs of parrots. Why do you imprison me, as from my secret heart there is an evident fastening (of grief) fixed upon the door of my heart’s fortress. Loose my bonds, and by way of conquering the fortress, fix this bond of thy heart upon the mercy of the chambers of the Creator. My heart was wounded by the tyranny and oppression of the heaven, now the chain wounds my leg as well as my heart. No one has seen half a dang mercy of the Most Bountiful; had that not been so the imprisonment would have utterly ruined me. Since you ‘Amid girt the loins of loyalty in the service of the throne, therefore by his care the days of your imprisonment were brought to a happy termination. As long as the young and sprightly maidens to the distraction of their lovers, have purposely bound their cheeks with the chain of youthful bloom. So long may the door of good fortune be closed in every direction to your enemies. And by the sword may the bars of both fortresses be opened. - [Previous: 26.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.26.8) - [Next: 27.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.27.1) - [Up: 26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.26) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.26.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.muntakhab-al-tawarikh~en-ranking-lowe-haig.26.9) · Pramāṇa