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Among the War poems of 1914 there are
others also with merits of their own. Turcos at
Cambrai, for example, has been called thrilling
and grand by an English friend of his. It reveals
the warrior's soul in the poet, and reminds me
of the lines once written by Nizamat Jung inside
the cover of the Shah Nama apostrophising
Firdausi : " O poet with a warrior's soul." Un-
doubtedly he himself possessed some of it.
Among his earlier poems, there is one which
cannot fail to attract attention on account of
its structure, its imagery, and its language : it
is the stately Coronation Ode of 1911.
There was a time when Nizamat Jung as an
admiring pupil of Thomas Gray, felt the
fascination of the Pindaric .Qde, and the old love
returned when a great occasion presented itself
in 1911. Here I may mention in passing that
\ this Ode was read before Their Majesties King
. George V and Queen Mary, soon after their Silver
Jubilee in 1936—and was appreciated by them,
* as may "be seen from the following letter to
Lady Bute from one of the Ladies-in-Waiting
to Her Majesty.
Sandringham, NORFOLK.
January 2, 1936.
DEAR LADY BUTE,
The Queen has bidden me to write to you again and say
Their Majesties have now had time to read the poem you
sent from Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur. The Queen will
be grateful if you will send him a message from both Their