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these jasmines, these white.html">white.html">white jasmines.
I have loved the sunlight, the sky and the green earth;
I have heard the liquid murmur of the river through the darkness
lonely waste, like a bride raising her veil to accept her lover.
Yet my memory is still sweet with the first white jasmines that I
merrymakers on festival nights.
On grey mornings of rain I have crooned many an idle song.
I have worn round my neck the evening wreath of bakulas
that filled my hands when I was a child.
O you shaggy-headed banyan tree standing on the bank of the pond,
nested in your branches and left you?
Do you not remember how he sat at the window and wondered at the
huge black shadow would wriggle on the water.html">water like sleep
weaving golden tapestry.
Two ducks swam by the weedy margin above their shadows.html">shadows, and the
to be your shadow and lengthen with the day on the water, to be a
ducks among the weeds and shadows.
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Bless this little heart.html">heart.html">heart, this white soul that has won the kiss of
face.
He has not learned to despise the dust, and to hanker after gold.
Clasp him to your heart and bless him.
He has come into this land of an hundred cross-roads.
I know not how he chose you from the crowd, came to your door,
heart.
Keep his trust, lead him straight and bless him.
Lay your hand on his head, and pray that though the waves
and fill his sails and waft him to the haven of peace.
Forget him not in your hurry, let him come to your heart and
THE GIFT
the stream of the world.
Our lives will be carried apart, and our love forgotten.
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