{"id":587,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=587"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:03","slug":"39-miscellaneous-verses-vol-08-translations-volume-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/08-translations-volume-08\/39-miscellaneous-verses-vol-08-translations-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-39_Miscellaneous Verses.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"24%\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<div class=\"Section4\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%' align=\"left\"><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><font size=\"4\">MISCELLANEOUS VERSES <\/font> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%' align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Definitions<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>What is clear profit? Meeting with good<br \/>\nmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A malady ? Of incompetent minds the spell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>What is a loss ? Occasion given in vain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; True skill of life ? With heavenward thoughts to<br \/>\ndwell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A hero ? The heart that is o\u2019er passion lord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A mistress ? She to loving service sworn. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best wealth? Wisdom. True happiness? The<br \/>\nsward<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of one\u2019s own country, life where it was born. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A kingdom ? Swift obedience fruitful found <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>At the low word from hearts of all around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A Rarity<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rich<br \/>\nin sweet loving words, in harshness poor, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>From blame of others\u2019 lives averse,<br \/>\ncontent <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>With one dear wife and so<br \/>\nheart-opulent, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Candid<br \/>\nand kindly, like an open door, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some<br \/>\nhere and there are found on teeming earth;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Her<br \/>\nfairest ornament is their quiet worth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR1\" align=\"left\" style='margin:0;text-align:left;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The Flame of the Soul<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Insulted, wronged, oppressed the unshaken mind, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Treasuring its strength,<br \/>\ninsurgent its high will, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Towers always, though beat<br \/>\nfiercely down to hell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The torch is to the inglorious soil declined,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Its flame burns upward and<br \/>\nunconquered still.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section5\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 203<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Conqueror<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>That man whose soul bright beauty cannot<br \/>\npierce<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With love\u2019s sweet burning javelins from her<br \/>\neyes, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nor sorrow torture his heart, nor passions<br \/>\nfierce<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Miserably over his senses tyrannize, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Conquers the world by his high-seated will,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The man well-balanced, noble, wise and<br \/>\nstill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Hero\u2019s Touch<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Touched by one hero\u2019s tread how vibrating<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Earth starts as if sun-visited, ablaze,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Vast, wonderful, young! Man\u2019s <span class=\"SpellE\">colourless<\/span> petty days <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bloom suddenly and seem a grandiose thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Power of Goodness<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The bloom of natural goodness like a flower<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is Nature\u2019s darling, all her creatures<br \/>\nprize, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And on whose body\u2019s stock its fragrant<br \/>\npower<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Blossoms, all fiercest things can <span class=\"SpellE\">humanise<\/span>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>For him red fire becomes like water pale and cool, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>For him heaven-threatening Ocean sinks into a pool <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of quiet azure; for him the lion\u2019s heart<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tames its dire hungers to be like the hind\u2019s,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And the fell snake <span class=\"SpellE\">unsoothed<\/span><br \/>\nby music\u2019s art<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Upon his brows in floral wreaths he binds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Poisons for him to nectar change; impassable hills <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Droop, gentle slopes; strong blessings grow from ruthless ills.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 204<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='color:blue'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section6\">\n<p class=\"FR1\" align=\"left\" style='margin:0;text-align:left;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Truth<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR1\" align=\"left\" style='margin:0;text-align:left;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Dear as his own sweet mother to the man<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of truth his word is, dear as his heart\u2019s blood. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Truth, \u2018tis the mother of his soul\u2019s great brood, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>High modesty and virtue\u2019s lordly clan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Exceeding pure of heart as to a youth<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>His mother, and like a mother to him cleaves <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>This sweet proud goddess. Rather life he leaves <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And happiness puts away, not divine Truth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Others clasp some dear vice, gold, woman, wine;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>He keeps for Truth his passion fiery and fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Woman\u2019s Heart<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>More<br \/>\nhard the heart of woman is to seize <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Than an unreal mirrored face, more<br \/>\nhard <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Her moods to follow than on<br \/>\nmountains barred <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>With<br \/>\nrocks that skirt a dreadful precipice <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A<br \/>\ndangerous luring pathway near the skies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\ntransient is her frail exacting love<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Like dew that on some lotus\u2019 petal<br \/>\nlies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>As<br \/>\nwith rich fatal shoots an <span class=\"SpellE\">upas<\/span>-grove,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Woman with faults is born, with<br \/>\nfaults she grows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thorns<br \/>\nare her nature, but her face the rose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Fame\u2019s Sufficiency<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>\u201cVictory is his on earth or Paradise,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The high heart slain in battle face to face.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Let be your empire and your golden skies;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For him enough that friends and foemen praise <span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0<\/span>And with fame\u2019s <span class=\"SpellE\">rumour<\/span><br \/>\nin his ears he dies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 205<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='color:blue'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section7\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Magnanimity<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The world teems miracles, breeds grandest things,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>But <span class=\"SpellE\">Rahu<\/span> of all most <span class=\"SpellE\">marvellous<\/span> and<br \/>\ngreat <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Or<br \/>\nthe vast Boar on white tusks delicate<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Like buds who bears up earth, else chaos rings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span class=\"SpellE\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rahu<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>, cleft, <span class=\"SpellE\">trunkless<\/span>,<br \/>\ndeathless, passionate,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Leaps on his foemen and can overbear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A miracle, then, greater miracle, spare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Man Infinite<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Earth is hemmed in with Ocean\u2019s vaster<br \/>\nmoan;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The world of waters flows not infinitely;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A high unwearied <span class=\"SpellE\">traveller<\/span>, the Sun<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Maps out the limits of the vaulted sky. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>On every creature born a seal is set <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>With limits budded in, kept separate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Only man\u2019s soul looks out with luminous eyes <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Upon the worlds inimitably wise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Proud Soul\u2019s Choice<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But<br \/>\none God to worship, hermit <span class=\"SpellE\">Shiv<\/span> or puissant Vishnu,<br \/>\nhigh;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But one friend to clasp, the first of men or proud Philosophy;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But one home to live in. Earth\u2019s imperial city or the wild;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>But one wife to kiss. Earth\u2019s sweetest face<br \/>\nor Nature, God\u2019s own child. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Either in your world the mightiest or my<br \/>\ndesert solitary.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 206<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='color:blue'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section8\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <span class=\"SpellE\">Waverer<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Seven mountains, eight proud elephants, the Snake,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Tortoise help to bear this Earth on<br \/>\nhigh, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yet is she troubled, yet her members shake!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Symbol of minds impure, perplexed and wry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Though constant be the strife and claim,<br \/>\nthe goal <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Escapes the sin-driven and the doubting<br \/>\nsoul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span class=\"SpellE\"><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gaster<\/span><\/b><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'> <span class=\"SpellE\"><b>Anaides<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nay, is there any in this world who soon<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Comes not to heel, his mouth being filled with food? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The inanimate <span class=\"SpellE\">tabour<\/span>, lo,<br \/>\nwith flour well-glued<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Begins with sweeter voice its song to<br \/>\ncroon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Rarity of the Altruist<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Low minds enough there are who only care<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To fill their lusts with pleasure, maws with food.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Where shall we find him, the high soul and<br \/>\nrare<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To whom the good of<br \/>\nothers is his good? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>First of the saints is he, first of the<br \/>\nwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Red Mare of the Ocean drinks the seas<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Her own insatiable fire to feed;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The cloud for greater<br \/>\nends exacts his need, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>The parching heats to cool. Earth\u2019s pain<br \/>\nto ease. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"FR2\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>Wealth\u2019s sole good is to heal the <span class=\"SpellE\">unhappy\u2019s<\/span> sighs.<span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section9\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 207<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Statesman and Poet<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>How like are these whose <span class=\"SpellE\">labour<\/span> does not<br \/>\ncease,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Statesman and poet, in their several cares;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Anxious their task, no work of splendid ease!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One ranges far for costly words, prepares <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pure forms and violence popular disdains,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The voice of rare assemblies strives to find, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Slowly adds phrase to noble phrase and means<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Each line around the human heart to wind\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The statesman seeks the nation\u2019s wealth from far;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not to the easy way of violence prone <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>He puts from him the brutal clang of war<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And seeks a better kind dominion, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>To please the just in their assemblies high,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Slowly to build his careful steps between <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>A noble line of linked policy, \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>He shapes his acts a nation\u2019s heart to win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Their burden and their toil make these two<br \/>\nkin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Words of the Wise<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Serve<br \/>\nthou the wise and good, covet their speech <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Although to trivial daily things it<br \/>\nkeeps. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Their casual thoughts are foam from<br \/>\nsolemn deeps;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Their<br \/>\npassing words make Scripture, Science; rich, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Though<br \/>\nseeming poor, their common actions teach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Noblesse Oblige<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>If<br \/>\nsome day by some chance God thought this good <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>And lilies were abolished from the<br \/>\nearth, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Would yet the swan like fowls of<br \/>\nbaser birth<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Scatter<br \/>\na stinking dunghill for his food?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section10\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 208<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Roots of Enjoyment<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>That<br \/>\nat thy door proud-necked the high-foaming steeds <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Prance spirited and stamp in pride<br \/>\nthe ground <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And the huge elephants stand, their<br \/>\ntemple\u2019s bound <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Broken with rut, like <span class=\"SpellE\">slumbrous<\/span> mountains round, \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>That<br \/>\nin harmonious concert fluted reeds,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The harp\u2019s sweet moan, the <span class=\"SpellE\">tabour<\/span> and the drum <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And conch-shell in their married<br \/>\nmoments come <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Waking at dawn in thy imperial dome,<br \/>\n\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thy<br \/>\npride, thy riches, thy full-sated needs,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>That like a king of gods thou <span class=\"SpellE\">dwell\u2019st<\/span> on earth, \u2014 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>From duties high-fulfilled these<br \/>\njoys had birth;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>All pleasant things washes to men of<br \/>\nworth<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The<br \/>\naccumulated surge of righteous deeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Natural Qualities<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Three<br \/>\nthings are faithful to their place decreed, \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Its<br \/>\n<span class=\"SpellE\">splendour<\/span> as of blood in the lotus red, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Kind<br \/>\nactions, of the noble nature part, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>And<br \/>\nin bad men a cold and cruel heart.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Death, not Vileness<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Better<br \/>\nto a dire verge by foemen borne, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>0 man, thy perishable body dashed <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Upon some ragged beach by Ocean<br \/>\nlashed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hurled<br \/>\non the rocks with bleeding limbs and torn;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Better<br \/>\nthy hand on the dire cobra\u2019s tooth <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sharp-<span class=\"SpellE\">venomed<\/span><br \/>\nor to anguish in the fire, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Not at the baser bidding of desire<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thy<br \/>\nheart\u2019s high virtue lost and natural truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section11\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 209<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Man\u2019s Will<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Renounce thy vain attempt, presumptuous<br \/>\nman,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Who <span class=\"SpellE\">think\u2019st<\/span> and <span class=\"SpellE\">labourest<\/span> long impossibly <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>That the great heart for misery falter can:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fruitless thy hope that cruel fall to see. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dull soul! these are not petty transient<br \/>\nhills,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span class=\"SpellE\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Himalay<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'> and <span class=\"SpellE\">Mahendra<\/span> and the rest, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nor your poor oceans, their fixed course<br \/>\nand wills<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That yield by the last cataclysm oppressed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Man\u2019s will his shattered world can long<br \/>\nsurvive:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When all has perished, it can dare to live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Splendid Harlot<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Victory\u2019s a harlot full of glorious lust<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Who seeks the hero\u2019s breast with wounds<br \/>\ndeep-scored, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-indent:21pt;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hate\u2019s passionate dints like love\u2019s! So<br \/>\nwhen the sword<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Has ploughed its field, leap there she feels she must.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Fate<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Lo, the moon who gives to healing herbs their virtue,<br \/>\nnectar\u2019s home,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Food <span class=\"SpellE\">immortalising<\/span>, \u2014 every<br \/>\nwise physician\u2019s radiant Som,<sup>1 <\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Even him consumption seizes in its cruel clinging<br \/>\narms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Then be ready! Fate takes all her toll and heeds not<br \/>\ngifts nor charms,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><sup><span lang=\"EN-US\">1<\/span><\/sup><span lang=\"EN-US\"> Soma, the moon-god of the <span class=\"SpellE\">immortalising<\/span> nectar, the Vedic Soma-Wine.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 210<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='color:blue'><\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Section12\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Transience of Worldly Rewards<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Your gleaming palaces of brilliant stone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your bright-limbed girls for grace and passion made, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Your visible glory of dominion,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your <span class=\"SpellE\">sceptre<\/span> and<br \/>\nwide canopy displayed, <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>These things you hold, but with what <span class=\"SpellE\">labour<\/span> won<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Weaving with arduous toil a transient thread <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Of shining deeds on careful virtue spun ? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Which easily broken, all at once is sped;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>As when in lover\u2019s amorous war undone<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A pearl-string, on all sides the bright<br \/>\npearls shed <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:12.0pt'>Collapse and vanish from the <span class=\"SpellE\">unremembering<\/span> sun.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Page\u2013 211<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"16%\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MISCELLANEOUS VERSES &nbsp; &nbsp;Definitions &nbsp; What is clear profit? 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