Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14 · page 21 2101And Queen Lona answered through her tears:102"Yea! mother am I, though I weep, So hold this word sure,-- Go, reign king of all men, but keep Thy heart good and pure!"103So Raja Rasalu was comforted, and began to make ready for fortune.104He took with him his horse Bhaunr and his parrot, both of whom had lived with him since he was born.105So they made a goodly company, and Queen Lona, when she saw them going, watched them from her window till she saw nothing but a cloud of dust on the horizon; then she bowed her head on her hands and wept, saying:106"Oh! son who ne'er gladdened mine eyes, Let the cloud of thy going arise, Dim the sunlight and darken the day; For the mother whose son is away Is as dust!"107Rasalu had started off to play chaupur with King Sarkap.108And as he journeyed there came a fierce storm of thunder and lightning, so that he sought shelter, and found none save an old graveyard, where a headless corpse lay upon the ground.109So lonesome was it that even the corpse seemed company, and Rasalu, sitting down beside it, said:110"There is no one here, nor far nor near, Save this breathless corpse so cold and grim; Would God he might come to life again, 'Twould be less lonely to talk to him."111And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu.112And he, nothing astonished, said to it:113"The storm beats fierce and loud, The clouds rise thick in the west; What ails thy grave and shroud, Oh corpse! that thou canst not rest?"1 2← previousDemon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13next →Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15↑ back to Indian Fairy TalesThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/20/page/2/