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Little Blind Fish, thou art marvellous wise, / Little Blind Fish, who put out thy eyes? / Open thine ears while I whisper my wish -- / Bring me a lover, thou little Blind Fish. / The Charm of the Bisara.
Some natives say that it came from the other side of Kulu, where the eleven-inch Temple Sapphire is. Others that it was made at the Devil-Shrine of Ao-Chung in Thibet, was stolen by a Kafir, from him by a Gurkha, from him again by a Lahouli, from him by a khitmatgar, and by this latter sold to an Englishman, so all its virtue was lost: because, to work properly, the Bisara of Pooree must be stolen -- with bloodshed if possible, but, at any rate, stolen.