The Memoirs of Bābur 907.2.4

907.2.4

I had written a quatrain in an ordinary measure but was in some doubt about it, because at that time I had not studied [Sidenote: Fol. 100.] poetic idiom so much as I have now done. The Khān was good-natured and also he wrote verses, though ones somewhat deficient in the requisites for odes. I presented my quatrain and I laid my doubts before him but got no reply so clear as to remove them. His study of poetic idiom appeared to have been somewhat scant. Here is the verse;— One hears no man recall another in trouble (_miḥnat-ta kīshī_); None speak of a man as glad in his exile (_ghurbat-ta kīshī_); My own heart has no joy in this exile; Called glad is no exile, man though he be (_albatta kīshī_). Later on I came to know that in Turkī verse, for the purpose of rhyme, _ta_ and _da_ are interchangeable and also _ghain_, _qāf_ and _kāf_.[601] (_g. The acclaiming of the standards._)