I still go swimming now and again, but not as often as when I was a child.

Accorded a semicanonical status similar to that of the works of Bhai Gurdas, Nand Lal's Persian compositions (trans. Bawa 2006) are much simpler than the elaborately mannered Persian poetry favoured in the courtly circles …

You see, she sees herself as a starlet; I see her as a sturdy, healthy but decidedly homely kid.

But for all this thou ſhalt haue as many Dolors for thy Daughters, as thou canſt tell in a yeare.