<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If I Told You About The Merlin</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If I told you about the Merlin</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Who swooped down and perched</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Just 7 meters from my opened vision</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">On a dappled branch of sycamore </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Would you know how my heart lurched</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To see this princess of glide and power?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To witness soar, the rapid pointed wings</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The majesty in circling flight</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Is fine enough and pulls the strings</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">But to have the visitor alight</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">And preen a moment then survey</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The river’s flow, lends legend to the day </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Song birds chipped and skylarks baulked</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Even the swallowtails froze in place</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Lest their twitching wings alert</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The fearsome falconry of the “lady hawk”. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">When I say how swiftly she then flew</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">To a higher perch with a better view</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I would be wrong not to say how long</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The precious moment seemed to me</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Wild guardian of the ancient songs</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The art and flow between the standing trees</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">You came and for a moment slowed</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">All temporality and on your gaze I rode.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Jhaffur khan azad darakth</p></div></body></html>