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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FIRST PERIOD. THE WARRIOR PRINCE. JTir0t Sitting. 2gth November, 1869. Birthplace of Hafed?Parentage?A Mother's Vow?Education?An Arabian Inroad?Youthful Aspirations?A Common Domestic Scene?Love versus War?Spirit Intervention. My birth-place was a lovely spot of earth's surface, situated on the Eastern shores of the Persian Sea, where the perpendicular cliffs, rising in many places from its blue waters in majestic grandeur, kissed the very clouds- above; and within sight of the Eastern mountains of Karmen, whose lofty tops were tinted in purple and gold by the great sun in his daily course. To the westward lay the Arabian valleys, whose perfumed odours were gently wafted on the soft evening winds towards the Persian shore. There stood my father's castle, embosomed in all the loveliness of Nature's soft and inviting grandeur: its lofty towers affording a calm retreat for the inmates to inhale the cool evening breeze, and from which, in early morning, they might hail the first appearance of the great and majestic orb of day, as he rose in the East in all. his glory to bless the earth with his life-giving beams. My father (for the time being I will call him Kapha) was descended from a long line of Chiefs of Persia, renowned in the history of their country for bravery and patriotism. My mother was the daughter of a Chief of Cashmere. The loveliest of women and the kindest of mothers, she was, at the same time, truly devoted to God; so much so, indeed, that when she first looked on me, her infant son, overpowered by feelings of gratitude to Him whom she fervently worshipped through the emblem of the greatsun, she solemnly dedicated me to His service. This intention on the part of my mother raised a dispute between my parents at the time, which was somewhat allayed by a...
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