Excerpt: ...me to-night a lotus tied With thread from a house where none has died." She rose, and laughed with thankful joy, Sure that the god would save the boy. She found a lotus by the stream; She plucked it from its noonday dream. And then from door to door she fared, To ask what house by Death was spared. Her heart grew cold to see the eyes Of all dilate with slow surprise: "Kilvani, thou hast lost thy head; Nothing can help a child that's dead. There stands not by the Ganges' side A house where none hath ever died." ...
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Excerpt: ...me to-night a lotus tied With thread from a house where none has died." She rose, and laughed with thankful joy, Sure that the god would save the boy. She found a lotus by the stream; She plucked it from its noonday dream. And then from door to door she fared, To ask what house by Death was spared. Her heart grew cold to see the eyes Of all dilate with slow surprise: "Kilvani, thou hast lost thy head; Nothing can help a child that's dead. There stands not by the Ganges' side A house where none hath ever died." Thus, through the long and weary day, From every door she bore away Within her heart, and on her arm, A heavier load, a deeper harm. By gates of gold and ivory, By wattled huts of poverty, The same refrain heard poor Kilvani, The living are few, the dead are many. The evening came-so still and fleet- And overtook her hurrying feet. And, heartsick, by the sacred fane She fell, and prayed the god again. She sobbed and beat her bursting breast "Ah, thou hast mocked me, Mightiest! Lo! I have wandered far and wide; There stands no house where none hath died." And Buddha answered, in a tone Soft as a flute at twilight blown, But grand as heaven and strong as death To him who hears with ears of faith: "Child, thou art answered. Murmur not! Bow, and accept the common lot." Kilvani heard with reverence meet, And laid her child at Buddha's feet. Mount Tabor On Tabor's height a glory came, And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame, The awestruck, hushed disciples saw Christ and the prophets of the law. Moses, whose grand and awful face Of Sinai's thunder bore the trace, And wise Elias, -in his eyes The shade of Israel's prophecies, - Stood in that wide, mysterious light, Than Syrian noons more purely bright, One on each hand, and high between Shone forth the godlike Nazarene. They bowed their heads in holy fright, - No mortal eyes could bear the sight, - And when they looked again, behold! The fiery clouds had backward rolled, And borne aloft in...
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Add this copy of Poems to cart. $10.00, very good condition, Sold by Gils Book Loft rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1899 by Houghton Mifflin.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. Book Bright gold-stamped green cloth, no dust jacket. Gilt top edge. 7.25" x 4.75." 1918 gift note FEP: from William Radford, to an old friend The Rev'd Paul Hickok, I give the poems of another friend John Hay, a great citizen of the world, April 27, 1918." Clean text. Solid. 8909 shelf.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in faded green cloth. Reprint of revised edition (1890). In once-green cloth, with gilt; frontis portrait with foxed tissue-guard. End papers & page fore-edge a little foxed & browned; green cloth very faded on boards, & browned on spine, with light wear at foot, & worn gilt lettering.
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