A"- v'^' c!>. -i' ./ v-^' .00 ,^<^ ■ym^^[: % ■ A -^^ ^ OO' . i ^ .^ A- .' v^^ -^c^. .^^c^^ '/'^ .0 0. -^^^ A ■x^'' "^-^ \sn' "-., v^••^^.■^^^" ^:% % <&' ./ % ' 1 0^^ ^k .^rSr^N ■. AV «'^\a"^ :C^ r <<>. .V, .o^ ^ '^ / ^C' i^ ^^^^^ ^r *' 9 \ -\ 1 f 1 \ -. % • <"- } .=:*««^*«»^.^*^^^" €^' ■f ^ ■'^^ ^L. m S l¥ t *H n H , 1 li EDWIN ARNOLD BIRTHDAY BOOK Coinpiied from the ivorks o/ Edwin Arnold, with new and additional Poems written expressly therefor EDITED BV KATHERINE LILIAN ARNOLD AND CONSTANCE ARNOLD {His daughters) t JAN 28 JS85/ B O S T 0>KC Wa sh^ D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY FRANKLIN AND HAWLEV STREETS TO Copyright by D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY 1884 ll-'iOVji PREFACE. The preparation of this Volume has been a "labour of love " for its Editors, the daughters of the Poet, from whose works the extracts which it contains are taken. Some of these have been derived from poems, as yet, unpublished, and the introductory verses to each month were specially written for our "Birthday Book." The fewest words are best to introduce a volume so prepared ; in compiling which we have ex- perienced such pride and pleasure as cannot, of course, be wholly imparted even to the most admiring read- ers, in both ' Hemispheres, of the " Light of Asia." But, since melodious calendars of the kind are now a fashion, we believe that very many in America and at home will welcome a year-book of quotations, thus gleaned, and from so rich a field of imagina- tion and intellect. THE EDITORS. London, Atigust, 1884. EDWIN ARNOLD BIRTHDAY BOOK. [Extract from letter of Mr. Ediviu Arnold to his son, Air. Julian B. Arnold, by arrangement zvit/i zu/iojn this book is published by D. Lothrop q^ Co.] " In regard to the Birthday Book which you tell me you are preparing for publication in America, I. hereby trans- fer to you all such rights as I possess, for its production and copyright, and give you free and complete authority in the matter." "Edwin Arnold." London, /uly, 1884. iC^VlT NEW YEAR. Over town and hamlet ringing, let the merry song go singing Welcome to the Young Year's beauty, and the blessed gifts she brings : Greet her for the apple-blossoms wreathed about her budding bosoms. Love her for the sunny days her barlej^-braided hair foretells, Bless her for the pleasant plenty, — grape and grain that God hath sent ye ; Laud her ! though we live to lose her in the snow, and chime the bells. JANUARY. Which of the merry months shall I praise ? Meadow birds, say ! Shall the April nights, or the autumn days, Have i)lace in my lay ? " Oh the sun of the summer is golden and strong, '• And the flowers of the summer shine fairly and long, " Sing thou to the summer the first of thy song, " As we sing on the spray." No ! no ! Meadow birds, no! Mine is the month that is born in the snow. May hath the bud, and the bee, and the dove, And the sky of the summer is bluest above, But the year's first month, she bringeth my love, And her bridal-day! Say, is it wrong To keep crown and song For the month that leadeth my lady along.'* 11 January ist. In the palace grounds An alcove on a garden gives, and there A tiny thing — forgot in the general fear, Lulled in the flower-sweet dreams of infancy, Bathed with soft sunlight falling brokenly Through leaf and lattice — was that moment waking A little lovely maid, most dear and taking. - '* The Epic of the Lion,'' from the French of Victor Hugo. January 2d. Beside him in the court Stood Dame Adalieta; comely she. And of her port as stately, and as sweet As if the braided gold about her brows Had been a crown. — King Sale I din . All existence is not equal, and all living is not life. — The Book of Good Counsels. 12 January ist. January 2do 13 January 3d. "Set thine own lamp on high, *' To shine at evening through the dark'Jing sky, " And I will be Love's ship — my pilot-star " That beam." — Hero and Leander. Excellent heart ! learned unknowingly, As the dove is which flieth home by love. — The Lii^kf of Asia. January 4th. Oh ! ever, when the happy laugh is dumb. All the joy gone, and all the anguish come — When strong adversity and subtle pain Wring the sad soul and rack the throbbing brain — When friend once faithful, hearts once all our own Leave us to weep, to bleed and die alone — The only calm, the only comfort heard. Comes in the comfort of a woman's word. — The Feast of Belshazzar. 14 January 3d. January 4Lh. 15 January 5th. Manifold tracks lead to yon sister-peaks Around whose snows the gilded clouds are curled ; By steep or gentle slopes the climber comes Where breaks that other world. Strong limbs may dare the rugged road which storms, Soaring and perilous, the mountain's breast ; The weak must wind from slower ledge to ledge With many a place of rest. — The Light of Asia, January 6th. Wonderful Life ! So sad with partings, and so sweet with meetings. Made up of wild farewells, and wilder greetings; Oh word, with wonder rife ! — Dreatn-Land. What I know that will I answer. Ask ! — The Enchanted Lake. 16 January 5 th. January 6th. 17 January yth. Ah! The gleaming, glancing arrows of a lovely woman' CO eye ^ Feathered with her jetty lashes, perilous thev pass us by. Pi J — T/w Book of Good Coiuisels. o (J r^ The kingdom that I crave g Is more than many realms — and all things pass o ^ To change and death. — The Light of Asia. January 8th. Oh, you know ! His hair danced back from off his brow, like sprays Of bright amaracus, when the west winds blow, And all his neck, flushed with the heat of the games, Shone as Ihou shinest. Moon ! but rosier pearl ! — From Theocritus. Night listened in the glens And noon upon the mountains. — The Light of Asia. 38 January 7th. January 8th 19 January 9th. Naught call I now to mind he said or did, That was not rightly said or justly done. No idle words he spake, even in free speech Patient and lordly ; generous to bestow Beyond all givers ; scorning to be base Yea, even in secret. — Nala and Damayanti. January loth. — then in daring mood Sidelong he glanced and murmured half a word, And checked it to a sigh, itself half heard : Glance, word, and sigh so tender-timid were, Their silent speaking could not anger her; Nay, but it pleased ! that gentle stratagem To tell the love which burned so plain in him. — Hero and Leander. 20 January 9th. January loth. ai January nth. Self, who in the Universe As in a mirror sees her fond face shown, And crying " I " would have the world say " I," And all things perish so if she endure. — The Light of Asia. In entertaining strangers a man may add to his friends. — The Book of Good Counsels. January 12th. Let no man miss to render reverence To those who lend him life, whereby come means To live and die no more. — The Light of Asia. — as all the spring runs down Into a lake, from all its hanging hills. The clash and glitter of a hundred streams. — King Saladin. January iiih. January i2thc 23 .^^ January 13th. 00 s Glory and praise to those sweet lamps of earth, o The nine fair daughters of Almighty Jove, X «^w The healing secrets of their songs forego " < Despair ; and when we tremble at the waves o '^ fa'^ On life's wild sea of murk incertitude, if, H s S Their gentle touch upon the helm is pressed, '^^ Their hand points out the beacon star of good, ^ 5 Where we shall make our harbor, and have rest. -* o — /^rom Theocritus. -^ January 14th. d 2" " I am as one who came to « Where, among roses, one bush, all aflame K By fragrant crimson blossoms, charged the air u With loveliness and perfume past compare. < Then had I thought to load my skirt with roses, m But ah ! the scent so rich, so heavenly, comes ; u 2 I let the border of my mantle fall — _^ The roses slipped ! I bring ye none at all." § — The Pearls of the Faith. « 24 January 13th. Januarv' 14th. •rt-y. K January 15th. The glossy golden lilies of the land Lost lustre in her hair; and that she owned The noble Norman eye — the violet eye Almost — so far and fine its lashes drooped, Darkened to purple. — Vernier. Honour him for thine own honour — better is he than the best. — T/ie Book of Good Counsels, January i6th. A gentle wife, a noble friend she walks, Nor ever with the gossipmongers talks; Such women sometimes Zeus to mortals gives, The glory and the solace of their lives. — From Simotiides of Amorgos. Who wins his throne and treasures from a prince, Must stand the hazard of the counter-cast. — Nala and Damayanti. 26 January 15111. January 16th, 2r January 17th. Some new face, some winsome playmate, With her hair ulitied, And the blossoms tangled in it, Woos him to her side. Fair ? yes, yes ! the rippled shadow Of that midnight hair Shows above ber brow — as clouds do O'er the moon — most fair. — The Indian Song of Songs. January i8th. Better live and love and rue it, Than not live and love. — Griselda. He who walks low paths along Still keeping to the way, shall come Sooner and safer to his home Than the proud wanderer on the hill. — The Etichanted Lake. 28 January 17 th. January iSthc 29 January 19th. — one even as I, Who ache not, lack not, grieve not, save with griefs Which are not mine, except as I am man; — If such a one, having so much to give. Gave all, laying it down for love of men, And thenceforth spent himself to search for truth, Wringing the secret of deliverance forth, Whether it lurk in hells or hide in heavens, Or hover, unrevealed, nigh unto all : Surely at last, far off, sometime, somewhere, The veil would lift for his deep-searching eyes, The road would open for his painful feet. — The Light of Asia. January 20th. Never a jot cares my pretty jade for their anger. Sometimes she flings a smile to one, and frowns to his fel- low. Sometimes she softens to t'other — and there they stand in the beechwood, Laughed at, but mad with love — half-teased, half-pleased at the wanton. —From Theocritus. The broad blue spangled hangings of the sky. — The Pearls of the Faith. 30 January 19th. January 20th, 31. January 21st. The green waves leap At the cliff's white feet On the shore of the land of the free : — Fair music they make together, The cliff and the climbing foam; And it sounds in the bright blue weather, Like the wanderer's welcome home. — The Wreck of the Northern Belle. January 22d. " Sweet 1 for thy love," he cried, " the sea I'd cleave, " Though foam were fire, and waves with flame did heave, " I fear not billows if they bear to thee ; " Nor tremble at the hissing of the sea ! " And I will come — " — Hero and Leander. Plays the round of folly rarely. — The Indian Song of Songs. 32 January 21st. January 22d. January 23d. Love once among the roses Perceived a bee reposing, And wondered what the beast was And touched it, so it stung him. * * * * But Cythera Said laughing, " Ah, my baby, If bees' stings hurt so sorely, Bethink thee what the smart is Of those, Love, that thou piercest." — From Anacron, January 24th, Love the inmate, not the room ; The wearer, not the garb ; the plume Of the falcon, not the bars Which kept him from the splendid stars. — The Pearls of the Faith. Nay, he was ever quick at numbers,'^ 'tis his vocation. ■■ — Griselda. 34 January 23d. January 24th. 35 January 25th. To him the moon's icy-chill silver Is a sun at midday ; The fever he burns with is deeper Than starlight can stay : g g Like one who falls stricken by arrows, With the color departed From all but his red wounds, so lies Thy love, bleeding-hearted. — The Indian Song of Songs, o uTPh P3 O ^^ .^^ January 26th. go — whose diadem P-i y'Q" Was set with peopled stars; wherefrom arose ^ o Lauds to the glory of God, filling the blue ;^ < With lovely music, as rose-gardens fill w I A land with essences ; and young stars, shaking o"!^ Tresses of lovely light, gathered and grew Q s Under his mighty plumes, departing still ^ 9 . . . ^^ Like ships with crews and treasure, voyage-making. ^ — T/ie Pearls of the Faith. ^ 36 January 25th. January 26th. 37 January 27th. Faith that will not fade or waver, Love that hath no end, Jewels fair for thee to wear, love, And for me to send. — The Caske I gaze upon thy beauty, and my fear Passes as clouds do, when the moon shines clear. — The Indian Song of Songs January 28th. Peace and fortune thou wilt bring To thy city, to thy country ! — Nala and Damayanti And still it glideth silently and slow, And still beneath the spectral letters grow — Now the scroll endeth — now the seal is set — The hand is gone — the record tarries yet. — The Feast of Relshazzar. 38 January 27th. January 28thc ^ January 29th. 00 § Longing Leander, on the black waves' crest, a. I Eying the light that led to Hero's breast ; .^r-. Kind light — Love's jewel ! — which the mighty Jove" ^'i Might well have taken to the orbs above, 2 - And set it shining in the spangled sky ^ « To be Love's star of all Heaven's company. i . — ^ero and Leander True friends counsel well. '^< — The Book of Good Counseh is January 30th. Thou teachest them who teach, Wiser than wisdom is thy simple lore. Be thou content to know not, knowing thus Thy way of right and duty : grow, thou flower I With thy sweet kind in peaceful shade — the light >g Of Truth's high noon is not for tender leaves. < ^- z — The Lis'ht of Asia %•:> The guest is lord of all. ^ — The Book of Good Counseh I 40 >^^ January 29th. January 30th 41 January 31st. Swiftly did the doves fly, Swiftly they brought thee, waving plumes of wonder ■ — Waving their pale plumes all across the ether, All down the azure ! — From Sappho. Each beloved object born Sets within the heart a thorn, Bleeding, when they be uptorn. — The Book of Good Counsels, 42 jANUiXRY 31st. 43 FEBRUARY. Rain — liail — sleet — snow — But in my East This is the time when palm-trees quicken With flowers, wherefrom the Arabs' feast Of amber dates will thenceforth thicken. Female and male, apart they grow; And o'er the desert-sands is wafted, On light airs of the After-glow, That golden dust whence fruit is grafted. No gray reality's alloy Your green ideal can diminish! You have love's kiss, in all its joy, Without love's lips, which let us finish! 47 February ist. " Worshipful ! my heart Is little, and a little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moists the field. It is enough for me to feel life's sun Shine in my Lord's grace and my baby's smile, Making the loving summer of our home." — The Light of Asia. February 2d. This scroll, and what it saith Ends my commission. — Gfiselda. Mistress, sweet and bright and holy I Meet him in that place; Change his cheerless melancholy Into joy and grace; If thou hast forgiven, vex not; If thou lovest, go; Watching ever by the river, Krishna listens low. — The htdian Song of Songs. 48 February ist. February 2do 49 Z u February 3d. What lightning strikes, in sooth, like a fair face ? What arrow pierces like a woman's grace ? 'Tis the eyes slay, thence fly the subtle darts Which deal swift wounds and hurt unguarded hearts — /Zero and Lcander. Streams, that seek the sea, g"^ The more they flow the wider be. — The Enchanted Lake. February 4th. I choose To tread its paths with patient, stainless feet, Making its dust my bed, its loneliest wastes My dwelling, and its meanest things my mates : Clad in no prouder garb than outcasts wear. Fed with no meats save what the charitable Give of their will, sheltered by no more pomp Than the dim cave lends or the jungle-bush. This will I do because the woful cry Of life and all flesh living cometh up Into my ears, and all my soul is full (^f pity for the sickness of this world. — The Light of Asia. 50 February 3d. February 4th. 51. _^ February 5th. _ ^ How should I not be happy, blest so much, ^c — The Light of Asia. £^ Softly the sway of the pine-branches murmurs a melo- < K dy, shepherd ' g 2 Down by the rim of the fountain, and softly dost thou, u z on the Pan-pipes, §►2. Pipe to the pines: next to Pan thou bearest the bell Sq for rare music. < ^" — From Theocritus. February 6th. Not a life below the sun But is precious — unto one. Not an eye, however dull, But seems somewhere beautiful ; Not a heart, howe'er despised. But is passioned for and prized. Fool who laughs at lack of graces Each one hath a many faces. — Fades noii omnibus una. 52 Februarj^ Sth. February 6ih. 53 February 7th. And a love-look lights her eyes in the gloom, And the darkness is sweet with her sighs. — The Indian Song of Songs. His was a kingdom mighty as thine own, The sword his sceptre and the earth his throne The nations trembled when his awful eye Gave to them leave to live, or doom to die. — The Feast of Belshazzar, February 8th. The thoughts ye cannot stay with brazen chains A girl's ha'r lightly binds. — The Light of Asia. And wisdom deep his guerdon was. And mighty things he knew; Yet from each unlocked mystery Some harder marvel grew. — J^est. 54 February yth. February 8th 55 February 9th. — and, in a bower of Paradise — Where nectarous blossoms wove a shrine of shade, Haunted by birds and bees of unknown skies — She sate. — The Indian Song of Songs. Oh, moon! hide not thy face. Oh, white moon! listen and pity ! Silver-faced Queen of the Stars, thou know'st we are not as immortals. — From Theocritus. February loth. One that hath V countenance like the full moons for light And eyes of lotus. — A^ala and Damayanti. In speech Right gentle, yet so wise ; princely of mien, Yet softly-mannered; modest, deferent. And tender-hearted, though of fearless blood. — The Light of Asia. 56 February 9th. February loth. ._ February nth. ■o c Consider! if a king should call thee "friend," o "I And lead thee to his court, Roofed large with lazulite, and pavemented J With flow'rs, on green floors wrought; a h 2 Lo! but He doeth this — Allah our King, Q His sky is lazulite; Q ^ His earth is paved with emerald-work ; its stores g Are spread for man's delight. — TAe Pearls of the Faith. February 12 th. And — angel albeit — her rich lips breathe Sighs, if sighs were ever so sweet ; And — if spirits can tremble — she trembles now From forehead to jewelled feet. — The Indian Song of Songs. Each from the goblet of a god shall sip And Judah's gold tread heavy on the lip. — TJie Feast of Belshazzar. 58 February nth. February 12 th. 59 February 13th. Stars! if my sweet love still a dreaming lies, Shine through the roses for a lover's sake, And send your silver to her lidded eyes; Kissing them very gently till she wake. Then while she wonders at the lay and light, Tell her, though morning endeth star and song, That ye live still, when no star glitters bright, And my love lasteth, though it finds no tongue. — Serenade. N February 14th. < % Speak once more ! then thou canst not choose but /^r! show f^ o o"™ Thy mouth's unparalleled and honeyed wonder "■^ g 15 Where, like pearls hid in red-lipped shells, the row ^.T3 Of pearly teeth thy rose-red lips lie under; :r £ Ah me ! I am that bird that woos the moon, ^-^ And pipes — poor fool! to make it glitter soon. 2 — The Indian Song of Songs. I 60 February 13th. February 14th 61 February 15th. There came a woman, fair and sweet, So ravishing of form and mien That great Soharah, who is queen Of the third planet, hath not eyes As soft, nor mouth made in such wise. — The Pearls of the Faith. Thou dost but chase the shadow of thyself. — The Light of Asia. February i6th. The stainless ramps of huge Himala's wall, Ranged in white ranks against the blue — untrod. Infinite, wonderful — whose uplands vast, And lifted universe of crest and crag, Shoulder and shelf, green slope and icy horn. Riven ravine, and splintered precipice Led climbing thought higher and higher, until It seemed to stand in heaven and speak with gods. — The Light of Asia. 62 February 15th. February i6th. 63 February 17th. While gained for ever, I shall dare to grow Life to life with him, in the realms divine; And — Love's large cup at happy overflow, Yet ever to be filled — his eyes and mine Shall meet in that glad look, when Time's great gat Closes and shuts out fate. — The Indian Song of Songs. For holiest is the war that winneth Peace. — Add7'ess to the Earl of Derby. February i8th. Forbiddest thou gift of the common stream To this idolator, spent with the heat, Who, in his utmost need, watered his beast, And bowed the knee in reverence, ere he drank. > Allah hath borne with him these threescore years, Bestowed upon him corn and wine, and made His household fruitful and his herds increase; And find'st thou not patience to pity him Whom God hath pitied, waiting for the end, Since none save He wotteth what end will come, Or who shall find the light. — The Pearls of the Faith. 64 February 17th. February i8th. 65 February 19th. If my love loved me, he should be a bee, I the yellow champak, love the honey of me." — The Indian Song of Songs. He shall tread the sad and lowly path Of self-denial and of pious pains, Gaining who knows what good, when all is lost Worth keeping. — The Light of Asia. February 20th. Gods ! Helen's town I've seen, and Sparta's dames, Whose charms make wars and give the world to. flames ; But never saw I one that could compare With form so goddess-like and face so rare. — Hero and Leafider: I thank. the.e for. tlie blessing of such lore. — The. Birth, of Death.. 66 February iqiIi. February 20th. 67 February 21st. Fortune! Rate her like a master, And she serves thee like a slave. — The Book of Good Counsels. For now I know, by what within me stirs, That I shall teach compassion unto men And be a speechless world's interpreter, Abating this accursed flood of woe, Not man's alone. — The Light of Asia. February 22d. Nay, draw not near, thou wilt not turn the leaf Of old philosophy ! Well, an' thou'lt learn, .-2 % •z. a g I See how it saith, " That in the ancient date 2 J Priam of Trov " — Ah ! but thou must not wait I -J ^ :^ To kiss before we turn. mP^ — From Aristippus. hi _^ Seeking nothing he gains all. § — The Light of Asia. ^ 68 February 21st. February 2 2d. February 23d. ** O Devvdrop!" said the Rose, "where didst thou gain This light, that like a gem on me hath lain?" "A cloud," he said, uplifted me from ocean, And I must trickle to the deep again." — The Pearls of the Faith. Now thy name is his playmate — that only ! — — The Indian Song of Songs. February 24th. Before beginning, and without an end. As space eternal and as surety sure, Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good, Only its laws endure. The ordered music of the marching orbs It makes in viewless canopy of sky; In deep abyss of earth it hides up gold, Sards, sapphires, lazuli. Ever and ever bringing secrets forth, It sitteth in the green of forest-giades Nursing strange seedlings at the cedar's root Devising leaves, blooms, blades. — The Light of Asia. 70 February 23d, February 24th February 25th. Where art thou, sweet? I long for thee, as thirsty lips for streams! Oh, gentle promised angel of my dreams, Why do we never meet ? — A ma Future. Be second and not first! — the share's the same If all go well. If not, the Head's to blame. — The Book of Good Counsels. . February 26th. Low whispers the wind from Malaya O'erladen with love; On the hills all the grass is burned yellow; And the trees in the grove Droop with tendrils that melt by their sweetness The thoughts of the parted. — The Indian Song of Songs. In truthfulness of act be our faith seen. — The Pearls of the Faith. 72 February 25th. February 26th. :7.:i i P'ebruary 27th. — none of these Am I, good saints. No goddess of the woods Nor yet a mountain, nor a river sprite; A woman ye behold. — Nala and Damayanti. Thou knowest all without the books : and know'st Fair reverence besides. — The Light of Asia. February 28th. — doing right is more Than any learning. — Love and Death. My soul for tenderness, not blame, was made ; Mine eyes look through his evil to his good ; My heart coins pleas for him ; my fervent thought Prevents what he will say when these are naught; And that which I am shall be understood, — The Indian Song of Songs. 74 February 27lh. February 28th. February 29th. Sweet seem your wedded days ; and dear and tender Your children's talk ; brave 'tis to hear the tramp Of pastured horses ; and to see the splendour Of gold and silver plunder ; and to camp With goats and camels by the bubbling fountain ; And to drink fragrance from the desert wind, And to sit silent on the mighty mountain; And all the joys which make life bright and kind. — The Pearls of the Failh. 76 February 29th. 77 ^^m g*---« - ^"^^ 1 W t. m^^ r*. .:::i --'»TSi| ^ Ta iii.,.-S.^-;'-';SK m- ^^^P i * '-^^ \ MARCH. Welcome ! Northwind from the Norland ! Strike upon our foremost foreland, Sweep away, along the moorland, Do thy gusty kind ! Thou and we were born together In the black Norwegian weather; Birds we be of one brave feather, Welcome, bully wind I Go! with train of spray and sea-bird, Fling the milky waves to leeward, Drive the ragged rain-clouds seaward. Chase the scudding ships. To the southwind take our greeting. Bid him send the Spring — his sweeting — Say what stout hearts wait her meeting, What bright eyes and lips. o o March ist. — Noblest, loveliest, best Who bear'st no gems, yet so becomest them. How like the new moon's silver horn thou art When envious black clouds blot it ! — Nala and Daviayanli. And he's a fool that fights against his fate. He loses, and gets shame, besides his tears. — From Hesiod. March 2d. I love thee to-day as I loved* thee before. I shall love thee as truly for evermore. f^S —The Three Students. I§ sf^ No pause — no standing-spot, no ground D s To slay the spirit's quest, ^c5 In all around not one thing found d:^ So good as to be — "best." ~Z -r- Rest. ^ 82 March ist. March 2d z <: March 3d. Her face of alabaster all a-shine Like the pure moon when first it swims the sky. — Hero and Leander. But hear and help, ye wise and shining nine Q I I yearn and strive towards your heavenly side ; Teach me the secret of the mystic sign. Give me the lore that guards, the words that guid — From Proclii March 4th. The Master cast his vision forth on flesh, Saw who should hear and who must wait to hear. As the keen Sun gilding the lotus-lakes Seeth which buds will open to his beams And which are not yet risen from their roots; Then spake, divinely smiling, "Yea! I preach! Whoso will listen let him learn the Law." — The Light of Asia 84 March 3d. March 4th. 85 "^ March 5th. 00 c Cheating them that truly trust you, 'tis a clum .S" villainy. < — TAc Book of Good Counsels. < J "I was not hopeless, for I won the prize X At running, and the maidens call me fair. ^ The one prize I have longed for since the feast ^ Was once to touch the goal of those dear lips ; Then I could rest — not else!" --— — From Theocritus. March 6th. ' Love's strength is perfect in love's utter weakness. Love's nobleness is noblest in love's meekness, ' Love ever ! none are gone ! ' None go ! none ever ! * Know ! when two hearts are set to one true time, ' For aye they make one music, chime one chime, 'Look up! and doubt it never!' — Dreanilaiid. March 5th. March 6th. 87 March 7th. The foolish ofttimes teach the wise. — The Light of Asia. "Under the angry sun the slain earth — look! — Dries up to dust; dies every growing thing; Then blow we breaths of southern wind which bring Rain-dropping clouds, and see! the dead earth lives, And stirs, and swells; and every herb revives." — 7he Pearls of the Faith. March 8th. Ah ! delicate phantoms that cheated With eyes that looked lasting and true, I awake, — I have seen her, — my angel — " Farewell to the wood and to you! Oh, whisper of wonderful pity! Oh, fair face that shone ! Though thou be a vision, Divinest ! This vision is done. — The Indian Song of Songs. March 7th. March 8th. March 9th, Not by one portal, or one path alone, God's holy messages to men are known ; Waiting the glances of his awful eyes, Silver-winged Seraphs do his embassies ; And stars interpreting his high behest Guide the lone feet and glad the failing breast. — The Feast of Belshazzar. March loth. To lay up lasting treasure Of perfect service rendered, duties done In charity, soft speech, and stainless days : These riches shall not fade away in life, Nor any death dispraise. — The Light of Asia. — there haps to man Nothing unless by destiny. — Nala and Damayanti. 90 March 9th. March 10th. 91 March nth. Patience makes mirth as buds make bloom, Past loss is present treasure, To-day's remembered grief and gloom Will be to-morrow's pleasure. — Wait yet. Vows of men Fail ofttimes, being blind, but this of thine was noble. — 7^he Enchanted Lake. March 12 th. Ask who his friends are, ere you scorn your foe. — The Book of Good Counsels. — and there Behind its portal awful Azrael writes; The shadow of his brows compassionate Made night across all worlds ; For always on a scroll he sets the names Of new-born beings, and from off the scroll He blotteth who must die. — The Pearls of the Faith. 92 March nth. March 12th. March 13th. Then the World-honoured spake " Scatter not rice But offer loving thoughts and acts to all. To parents as the East where rises light ; To teachers as the South whence rich gifts come; To wife and children as the West where gleam Colors of love and calm, and all days end; To friends and kinsmen and all men as North ; To humblest living things beneath ; to Saints And Angels and the blessed Dead above : So shall all evil be shut off, and so The six main quarters will be safely kept." — The Light of Asia. March 14th. Life without golden love — what bliss is this? Oh, let me die when love is dead with me! The stolen words, the honeyed gifts, the kiss. These are the blossoms of youth's glorious tree. — From Mimttertfuts. "O Rose!" the Dewdrop said, "whence didst thou spring. That art so sweet and proud and fair a thing ? " — The Pearls of the Faith. 94 March 13th. March 14th. 95 March 15th. I " Comfort thee, dear ! " he said, " if comfort lives In changeless love." — The Light of Asia. " In mine own land, if any stranger sit A wedding-guest, the bride, out of her grace, In token that she knows her guest's good-will. In token she repays it, brims a cup, Wherefrom he drinking, she in turn doth drink : So is our use." — King Saladin. March 16th. O Dancer ! strip thy peacock-crown away, Rise ! thou whose forehead is the star of day, With beauty for its silver halo set ; Come ! thou whose greatness gleams beneath its shroi Like Indra's rainbow shining through the cloud — Come, for I love thee, my Beloved ! yet. — The Ifidian Song of Songs. March 15th. March i6th. 97 March 17th. ;| He who shares his comrade's portion, be he l)eggar I be he lord, o Q- Comes as truly, comes as duly, to the battle as tht < l)oard — 0^ Stands before the king to succour, follows to the pi; 7, to sigh < lie is friend, and he is kinsman — less would make - the name a lie. ^ — The Book of Good Counsels. « — strong for shocks g As is a tent with tent-pegs driven deep ? ^- — The Pearls of the Faith. o " March 18th. — Little praise had now That beauty which in old days shone so bright Marred with much grief it was, like sunlight dimmed By fold on fold of wreathed and creeping mist. — Nala and Damayanti. — like a love-verse printed On the smooth polish of an emerald. — The Indian Song of Songs. 98 March lyih. March i8th. 99 March 19th. M(jther! mild mother! after many years — So many that the head I bow turns gray — Come I once more to thee, thinking to say 111 what far lands, through what hard hopes and fears, 'Mid how much toil and triumph, joys and tears I taught thy teaching, and, withall, to lay At thy kind feet such of my wreaths as may Seem the least withered. — Oxford Revisited. March 20th. Thou gavest her those black brows for a bow Arched like thine own, whose pointed arrows seem Her glances, and the underlids that go — So firm and fine — its string? Ah, fleeting gleam! Beautiful dream! — The Indian So7ig of Songs. Friend, art thou faithful ? Guard mine honor so ! — The Book of Good Counsels. 100 March 19th. March 20th. 101 March 21st. | ^ Have ye bethought why seed should shoot, not sand, £ .;, Granite or crave! ? Why the gentle rain '^. " Falleth so clean and sweet from out Our sky, So Which might be salt and black and bitter? Why 5 a The soft clouds gather it from off the seas '^^ To spread it o'er the pastures by and by? - w — TAe Pearls of the Faith. March 22d. Even when their loss is largest, noble ladies Keep the true treasure of their hearts unspent Attaining heaven through faith, which undismayed is By wrong. — Nala and Damayanti. Eager ye cleave to shadows, dote on dreams; A false Self in the midst ye plant, and make A world around. — The Light of Asia. 102 March 21st. March 22d. 103 March 23CL And her subtle mouth that murmurs, And her silken cheek, And her eyes, say she dissembles Plain as speech could speak. — The Iitdiaii Song of Songs. All evil hearts Grew gentle, kind hearts gentler, as the balm Of that divinest Daybreak lightened Earth. — The Light of Asia, March 24th. Who taught thee such deep eloquence? Ah, mel Who brought thee hither, and procured us pain? For all these sweet things said are said in vain. — He7'o and Leander. — like the noise on the brink Of the sea, when its stones Are dragged with a clatter and hiss Down the shore, in the wild breakers' roar. — The Pearls of the Faith. 104 March 23d. March 2 4th« 105 ! ^ March 25th. M My cheeks were white no more, nor my heart sad « Nor any trouble left ; but we sat dose, 3 And the soft talk bubbled from lip to lip — F7'om Theocritus. •J Like fountains in the roses One foot goes, and one foot stands When the wise man leaves his lands. — The Book of Good Counsels, ^ March 26th. 3 No low born form is thine, albeit thou com'st ^ Wearing no ornaments. ^ — Nala and Damayanti. ■s: Decked forth in fold of woven gold, and crowned w with forest-flowers ; J And scented with the sandal, and gay with gems of % price — K g Rubies to mate his laughing lips, and diamonds like -V— his eyes. g — The India II Song of Songs. ^ 106 March 25th. March 26th. 107 March 27th. Love comes if the rose-crown rings thee, — Love endless and ever the same ; And the bright leaf of lanrcl brings thee The minstrel's favor and fame. But the rose hath an angry briar, That vvoundeth wherever 'tis worn, And, with laurel to lift thee higher. There are poisonous berries of scorn. — The Tiuo Wreaths. March 28th. Ah! Hero, wherefore call o'er such a sea .^ Too fond thou wert ; too bold and faithful he! Thou should'st have left unlit thy lamp of love. And waited till kind spring made green the grove; Ikit love and fate compelled her! so, o'ercome, She set her light, and lured him to his doom. — Hero and Leamier. For all the poor are piteous to the poor — The Lii^ht if Asia. 108 March 27th. March 28th. 109 March 29th. Were it one wasted seed of water-grass, Blown by the wind, or buried in the sand, He seeth and ordaineth if it live; Were it a wild bee questing honey-buds, He seeth if she find, and how she comes On busy winglets to her hollow tree. — The Pearls of the Faith, The utmost lov« is conquering sense. — The Enchanted Lake. March 30th. — honored and strong Truth speaking, skilled in arms, sagacious, just ; Terrible to his foes. — IVala and Damayanti. There is naught better than to be With noble souls in company. There is naught dearer than to wend With good friends faithful to the end. — Tove and Death. 110 March 29th. March 30th. Ill March 31st. .1 Come — o o Sweet son ! and see the pleasaunce of the spring, -".o And how the fruitful earth is wooed to yield ^ 'f. Its riches to the reaper ; how my realm — J'^_ Which shall be thine when the pile flames for me — ^ ° Feeds all its mouths and keeps the King's chest filled. wS Fair is the season with new leaves, bright blooms, < g Green grass, and cries of plough-time." So they rode Q 5 z ^ And all the jungle laughed with nesting-songs, ^^ And all the thickets rustled with small life g Of lizard, bee, beetle and creeping thing — o « Pleased at the springtime. — The Light of Asia. U2 Mauch 31st. 113 APRIL. Fair Grecian legend! that in spring, Seeking soft tale for sunnier hours, Fabled how Enna's queen did bring Back from the Underworld her flowers. Whence come ye else, cups of glad gold, Which men the yellow crocus call ? Ye snow-drops ! maiden meek and cold. What other fingers let you fall ? What hand but hers ? who, wont to rove The asphodel in Himera, Torn thence by an ungentle love, Flung not her favorites away ? Vainly dark king ! on thoughts that roam, Thy passion and thy power were spent, While one fair flower breathes airs of home, Homewards her heart and soul are bent. 117 April ist. Blossom of the almond-trees April's gift to April's bees Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling. Ah ! when winter winds are swinging All thy red bells into ringing, With a bee in every bell, Almond-bloom, we greet thee well. — April Blossoms. April 2d. Let be,— let be! These idle follies are not for the wise, A scholar's loves are fair philosophies ; I prithee leave me free ! — Aristippiis. Bear not false witness, slander not, nor lie; Truth is the speech of inward purity. — The Light of Asi.t. 118 April ist. April 2d. 119 , April 3d. CO c The swallow is come from his Syrian home 1^ To build on the English eaves, 'r^,^ The sycamore wears his glistening spears, -c And the almond rains roseate leaves, „cy And — dear I.ove ! — with thee as with bird and with hS tree g 2 'Tis the time of blossom and nest, w > X^ Then what fair thing of the beautiful spring g| Shall I liken to thee — the best. o o o2 -Son^^. April 4th. Ah ! beauty, rich and rare, If thou be casket to a mind like thee There were a piece of quaint and perfect work Worthy a monarch's wimiing. — Griselda. Do thou a blessing bring — Whose neck is gilt with yellow dust From lilies. — The Indian Song of Songs. 320 April 3d. April 4th. 121 April 5th. Consider them that serve The false gods, how they lay in golden dishes Honey and fruits and fishes Before their idols ; and the green fly comes. Shoots through the guarded gates, and hums Scorn of their offering, stealing what she will; And none of these great gods the thief can kill. — The Pearls of the Faith. April 6th. Light as the wings of Eros, and fleeting as Queen Aphrodite ! — From Theocritus. When 'tis willed we die Shall there not be as good a "Then" as "Now?" Haply much better ! since one grain of rice Shoots a green feather gem'd with fifty pearls, And all the starry champak's white and gold Lurks in those little, naked, gray spring buds. — The Light of Asia. 122 • April 5th. April 6th. 123 April 7th. ^ A noble name, Not the less sheweth beautiful and bright, Though pale the stars that gives its letters light. — A Dedication. Hence comes she with her pleasant wont When April chases Winter old, Couching against his frozen front Her tiny spears of green and gold. — Song. April 8th. Saw you ever truer wife ? — The Book of Good Counsels. "Think most of Eros, foolish heart of mine! ** Care not for tumbling billows ; let us go "Straight over them to Hero; why shrink so? " Hast thou forgotten that Queen Venus came "Forth from the floods, and ever rules the same? — Hero and Leander. 124 April 7th. April 8th. 125 April 9th. A modest manner fits a maid, And patience is a man's adorning, But brides may kiss nor do amiss, And men may draw at scathe and scorning. — The Book of Good Counsels. — a large Beauteous white cock crowed matins, at the sound Cocks in a thousand planets hailed the morn. — The Pearls of the Faith. April loth. — Good fellowship I'll show If thou wilt succor me. I'll be to thee A faithful friend. — Nala ajid Damayanti. And man who lives to die, dies to live well So if he guide his ways by blamelessness And earnest will to hinder not but help All things both great and small which suffer life. — The Light of Asia. 126 Aptiii, 9th. April loth. 127 April itth. Are not rarest melodies Played on silver strings ? H Look we not to gentle lips For gentle-spoken things? Sounds not joy the dearer From a joyous tongue ? Seems not sorrow nearer Sorrowfully sung ? Cu < — To a Lady. April 12th. — hast thou strained thy thought Searching that depth, which numbs the seeking mind As too much light the eager gaze doth blind? — The Pearls of the Faith. Silly glass, in splendid settings, Something of the gold may gain ; And in company of wise ones, Fools to wisdom may attain. — The Book of Good Counsels. 328 April i ith. April 12 th. 129 April 13th. B Next a fisherman comes, cut out on a rock, and its ^ ledges ^ Put up rough and stark ; — the old boy, done to a > marvel, 12 Staggers and sweats at his work — just like a fisher- o • 5° man hauling; '^ ^ Looking upon it you'd swear the work was alive, s -s and no picture, f, So do the veins knot up and swell in his neck and p his shoulders, '""' For, though he's wrinkled and gray, there's stuff left yet in the ancient. — I'yom Theocritus. ? April 14th. ^ And o'er his brow with roses blown she fans a u fragrance rare, '^ That falls on the enchanted sense like rain in thirsty g air. — The Indian Song of Songs, ^ 'Tis an emptv sea-shell, — one w « Out of which the pearl is gone ; The shell is broken, it lies there; Q The pearl, the al', the soul is here. • — After death in Arabia- 1 130 April 13th. April 14th. 131 April 15th. Sex, that tires of being true, Base and new is brave to you ! — The Book of Good Coicnsels. With wisdom's scroll to study, and the ways Of wondrous living things; And lovely pleasure of all ornaments That Nature's treasure brings. — The Pearls of the Faith. April i6th. A smile like water rippled by a tender summer air. — The Egyptian Princess. — the man Who never erred from virtue, never broke Our fellowship, and never in the world Was matched for goodly perfectures of form Or gracious feature. — The Indiati Idylls. 132 April i5tli. April i6th. 1:3:1 April 17th. Only be ye gentle hearted ; Beauty rich and wisdom rare From a gentle spirit parted Earneth hate and causeth care. — The Falcon Feast. Gentle, generous and discerning. Such a prince the gods do give ! — The Book of Good Counsels. April i8th. Lo, the night, thy bridesmaid, Comes! — her eyes thick-painted With soorma of the gloom — The night that binds the planet-worlds For jewels on her forehead. And for emblem and for garland Loves the blue-black lotus-bloom. — The India ft Song of Songs. 134 April 17th. April i8th. m April 19th. Whoso hath the gift of giving wisely, equitably, well; Whoso, learning all men's secrets, unto none his own will tell ; Whoso, ever cold and courtly, utters nothing that offends, Such an one may rule his fellows unto earth's ex- tremest ends. — The Book of Good Counsels. April 20th. And seeming to see naught, she saw, and bent Her sweet head from him — not in discontent; And seeming not to hear, she heard, and sighed A little silver sigh of pleasured pride ; By signs unwitting giving him to know It was not anger set her cheeks a-glow. — Hero and Leander. — brooding o'er the empty eggs of thought. — The Light of Asia. 136 April 19th. April 20th. 137 ~r April 21st. 00 J Lady! thou art a lovely witch; o Thou art read in the witch-song well, ,y- And the spell of thy power binds — ay, at this hour, h § Lady! I dare not tell. M — T/ie Shrift. w H 2 K April hath Isorrowed from her sister May cj The brightest dawn she brags of. ~'~" — Griselda. April 22d. Of bad men, cruel men are worst. — The Enchanted Lake, A garden on a hill Is as a likeness of that fair compassion Shown for the sake of God : the heavy rain Descendeth, and the dew; and every fashion Of good seed springs tenfold in fruit and grain. — The Pearls of the Faith. 138 April 21st. April 22d. April 23d. Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each chasing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves and golden flowers Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day. — Destiny. April 24th. — when shall I hear that voice, as low, As tender as the murmur of the rain When great clouds gather ? — JVala and Darnayanti. wSiddartha prays forget him till he come Ten times a Prince, with royal wisdom won From lonely searchings and the strife for light. — llie Light of Asia. 140 April 23d. April 24th. 141 April 25th. How new life reaps what the old life did sow: _.^ How where its march breaks off its march begins; S; Holding the gain and answering for the loss ; ^ And how in each life good begets more good, ^ Evil fresh evil ; Death but casting up i Debt or credit, whereupon th' account a "^ In merits or demerits stamps itself o By sure arithmic — where no tittle drops — >' Certain and just, on some new-springing life; ^^ Wherein are packed and scored past thoughts am deeds, Strivings and triumphs, memories and marks Of lives forgone. • — T/ie Light of Asia. ~T April 26th. c 2 The moonbeam darting through their leafy screer o .? Lost half its silver in the softened green, ^ And fell with lessened lustre, broken light, ^ Tracing quaint arabesque of dark and white; 2 Or dimly tinting on the graven stones Q The pictured annals of Chaldaean thrones. ^ — TJie Feast of Belshazzar. a; .9 14-2 April 25th. April 26th. 143 .._ April 27th. N. c — the large deep lotus-eyes o That like to Rati's own, the Queen of Love £ Beam, each a lovelit star, filling the worlds o With longing. .-^ — A^a/a and Damayanti. Here is no place for vows broken in making, — The Indian Song of Songs. April 28th. Our name should be a name for hope to utter, A watchword for the chosen of the land. — A 71 Apology. Therefore my life is glad, Nowise forgetting yet those other lives Painful and poor, wicked and miserable, Whereon the gods grant pity ! — The Light of Asia. . 144 April 27th. April 28th. 145 April 29th. For him the glorious music rolled Of singers silent long ; The Roman and the Grecian told Their wars of right and wrong ; For him Philosophy unveiled Athenian Plato's lore ; Might these not serve to stead a life ? Not these ! — he sighed for more. Rest. April 30th. — When will she overpass The river of this sorrow and come safe Unto its further shore — For as I think in winning her Nala would win his happy days again. — Nala and Daniayatiti. Take heed that no man, being 'scaped from bonds, Vexeth bound souls with boasts of liberty. — The Light of Asia.. 146 April 291I1. Aprii, 3otho 147 MAY. Who cares on the land to stay, Wooing the wilful May ; Leave the coquette To smile or fret And away to the sea, away! My beauty, my bark at sea With the winds and the wild clouds and me The low shore soon Will be down with the moon, And none on the waves but we. On, on ! with a swoop and a swirl, High over the clear waves curl ; Tender they prow Like a fairy now, Make the blue water bubble with pearl. Lo ! yonder, my lady, the light ! 'Tis the last of the land in sight! Look once — and away ! Bows down in the spray ; Lighted on by the lamps of the night ! 151 May I St. Among the flowers stood at spring, A lowly plant and bare; But the golden days adorned it With blossoms of the best; And though fickle April scorned it, May bore it in her breast. — Wait Yet. Knowledge grows, and life is one, And mercy cometh to the merciful. — The Light of Asia. May 2d. Wise, modest, constant, ever close at hand. — The Book of Good Counseh. Then himself Playing the chamberlain, with torches borne. Led them to restful beds, commending them To sleep and God, who hears — Allah or God — When good men do his creatures charities. — King Saladiii. 152 May ist. May 2d. 163 ^'^- May ^d. -^ I know how Krishna passes these hours of blue and i| gold, "(2 When parted lovers sigh to meet and greet and closely g = hold "^.5 Hand fast in hand; and every branch upon the Vakul g ^ tree nS Drof)ps downward with a hundred blooms, in every ^ 2 bloom a bee ; g w He is dancing with the dancers to a laughter-moving g ^ tone, g ^ In the soft awakening Spring-time, when 'tis hard to ^^ live alone. H J — T/ie Indian Sojig of Songs. May 4th. A splendid Presence, with large eyes divine Beaming, and golden pinions folded down, Their speed still tokened by the fluttered gown. — The Pearls of the Faith. Who toiled a slave may come anew a prince For gentle worthiness and merit won ; Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags For things done and undone. — The Light of Asia. 154 May 3d. May 4th. 155 May 5 th. Roam where you will, by vale and hill, From Vistula to Rhone ; No land is like the English land, No maidens like our own. — The Fairest of the Fixir. If there be two ways to a wise man's wish But only one way sure, he taketh that. — The Night of Slaughter, I May 6th. o H o n A low and gentle voice — dear woman's chiefest charm, ^ An excellent thing it is ! and ever lent % To truth and love, and meekness ; they who own i This gift, by the all-gracious Giver sent, ^ Ever by quiet step and smile are known ; § By kind eyes that have wept — hearts that have sor- I rowed, By Patience never-tired, from their own trials bor- rowed. ~^ — Womaii's Voice. 1 156 May 5th. May 6th. 167 -^ May 7th. I Like a plank of drift-wood (^ Tossed on the watery main, 2" Another plank encountered, w Meets, — touches, — parts again ; o So tossed, and drifting ever, g On life's unresting sea, g Men meet, and greet, and sever, u J , Parting eternally. < o — T/ie Book of Good Counsels. z o H Z < May 8th. ^ My fear is lost in love, my love in fear ; ;z; This bids me trust my burning wish, and come, § That checks me with its memories, drawing near. ^ — The Indian Song of Songs. M Z i^ Day — nigh to setting — drew her splendours in; < And shadow-loving Hesperus shone high, _^ Faint-seen upon the violet eastern sky. § — Hero and Leander. o " 158 May ylh. May 8th. May 9th. When most my spirit wanders, ranging round The lands and seas — as full of ruth for men As the far-flying dove is full of ruth For her twin nestlings — ever it has come Home with glad wing and passionate plumes to thee Who art the sweetness of my kind best seen, The utmost of their good, the tenderest Of all their tenderness, mine most of all. — The Light of Asia. May loth. That gem of women, with soft face Beautiful, wonderful ! — The Great Journey. And fountain-waters on the palace floor Made even answer to the river's roar, Rising in silver from the crystal well And breaking into spangles as they fell. — The Feast of Belshazzar. 160 May 9th. May 10th. 161 May nth. d §> Ah ! even now 3 Remembering that one look beside the river, o ^ Softer the vexed eyes seem, and the proud brow I Than lotus-leaves when the bees make them quiver. a ~ My love for ever ! -— — T/ie Ijidian Song of Songs. Here is the chief shall bring The glory back to us, having such strength. The Encha)ited Lak i May 1 2th. s o c o ^ If he hung high a glorious golden lamp g To shine where thy feet tread ; ^ And stretched black 'broidered hangings, sown with u gems '^ Yox curtains to thy bed ; I Lo ! but He doeth this — Allah our King, o J3L His sun by day. His silver stars by night, § Shine for our sakes. ^ — The Pearls of the Faith. 162 iMav 1 all. May 1 2th. 163 May 13th. This shall thy virtue be: And thou shalt purify thee by thyself, Making the good wax, and the evil wane By nature of the evil's self. — The Birth of Death. All things are shows, And vain the knowledge of their vanity. — The Light of Asia. May 14th. But there hath come a first-born in my tent ; Fain would I see my son's face for a day, Before mine eyes are sealed. Lend me my life. To hold as something borrowed from thy hand. Which I will bring again. — The Pearls of the Faith. His interest is ours. — The Book of Good Counsels. 164 May r3th. May 14th. May 15th. Upon his forehead high Twenty quick summers had not left a trace, Or dimmed a sparkle in the earnest eye Whence, like a prisoned bird from durance-place, His soul looked upward to its native sky His lip was fitter for a lover's song, What could it tell of sorrow or of wrong? — The Island of Trees. May 1 6th. Eloquent eyes, soft hands, and beaming brow. — Flowers. The fixed arithmic of the universe. Which meteth good for good and ill for ill. Measure for measure, unto deeds, words, thoughts; Watchful, aware, implacable, unmoved ; Making all futures fruits of all the pasts. — The Light of Asia. May 15 th. May i6th. 167 May 17 th. Listens low, and on his reed there Softly sounds thy name, Making even mute things plead there For his hope : 'tis shame That, while winds are welcome to him. If from thee they blow, Mournful ever by the river Krishna waits thee so ! — The Indian Song of Songs. May i8th. Truly a woman's ornament is this The husband is her jewel. — JVala and Damayanti. Richest, greatest, that one is Whose soul Sees with calm eyes all fates befall. And, needing nought, possesseth all. — The Ejichanted Lake. 168 May 17 th. May 18th. 169 May 19th. There be redder lips and brighter eyes than she hath, but no such lip and eye. — Griselda. A rock-rift pierced by stroke of lightning gave Such misty glimmer as a den need have : What eagles might think dawn and owls; the dusk Makes day enough for kings of claw and tusk. — " The Epic of the Lion.^^ From the French of Victor Hiioo. May 20th. A king Is likest Allah, not in triumphing 'Mid enemies o'erthrown, nor seated high On stately gold, nor if the echoing sky Rings with his name, but when sweet mercy sways His words and deeds. — The Pearls of the Faith. Such a friend ! — TJie Book of Good Counsels. 170 May 19 th. May 2othc 171 May 2 1 St. If a maiden Owned such a silver-lettered name as this, She should be lovely as a summer's eve All sun and softness ; if she spake, her words Should fall like lute-tones on the eager ear, Till silence should be sorrow, and her voice The spell to make it joy. — Juliet. May 22cl. And in his heart there lives no wish nor hope Save only this, to . . find Peace on the immortal beauty of thy brow. — The Itidian Song of So/igs. — All arts no man knows. Each hath his wisdom, but in one man's wit Is perfect gift of one thing, and not more. — Nala and Damayanti. 172 May 2 1 St. May 22d. 173 May 23d. Sestos and white Abydos — cities twain And there god Eros, setting notch to string, Wounded two bosoms with one shaft-shooting, A maiden's and a youth's. — Hero and Leander. Not if thy work be worth a date-stone's skin Shall it be overpast. — The Pearls of the Faith. May 24th. Woman's love rewards the worthless — kings of knaves exalters be ; Wealth attends the selfish niggard, and the cloud rains on the sea. i^ — The Book of Good Counsels. is This was a Prince unparalleled, thy lord; Virtuous as fair, a sea of goodly gifts Not to be summoned by a meaner voice. — Love and Death. 174 May 23d. May 24th. 175 May 25 th. I ■^ The thought of parting shall not lie > Cold on their throbbing lives, -a The dread of ending shall not chill ^^ The glow beginning gives; 00 o ~J^^ She in her beauty dark shall look — ?^g As long as clouds can be — in H Wj As gracious as the rain-time cloud o 9 Kissing the shining sea. w'-^^ — 77i£ Indian Song- of Songs. May 26th. So once again come, mistress ; and, releasing Me from my sadness, give me what I sue for, Grant me my prayer, and be as heretofore now Friend and protectress ! — From Sappho. When was fond Love so pitiless to love Save that this scorned to limit love by life. — The Light of Asia. 176 May 25 th May 26th. 177 a, May 27th. A prince, Yotithfti} and fair, Skilful in arms, wise, pleasant; in the war ^ —The Birth of Death. W K 9 He is brave whose tongue is silent of the trophies .^ of his word ; He is great whose quiet bearing marks his greatness well assured. — The Book of Good Counsels. May 28th. Mine is she! Mine is she! — The Book of Coiaisels. There lacked not to his wishes wild What the broad earth could bring : Strong knees were supple at his word. Swords glimmered at his will. Brave fortune! but it wearied himj — His spirit thirsted still. ^ Rest. 178 May 27th. May 28th. 179 May 29th. ^ Dearest glory that stills my voice, 3" Beauty unseen, unknown, unthought ! E Splendour of love, in whose sweet light S Darkness is past and nought. hA — The Indian Song of Songs. u <: ^ Nor any ocean rolls so vast that He "^ Forgets one wave of all that restless sea. • — The Pearls of the Faith. May 30th. ^ A voice of joy, than silver lute-string softer ! o « A mouth all rosebud, blossoming in laughter ! % A baby-angel hard at play ! a dream < Of Bethlehem's cradle, or what nests would seem § If girls were hatched !— all these! eyes too, so blue Q < That sea and sky might own their sapphire new! J _" The Epic of the Lion'' From the French of Victor u s Hngo. n X Choose by justice, putting self aside. ^ — The Enchanted Lake. 180 May 29lh. May 30th. 181 May 31st. — But as the waxing moon Goes thin and darkling for a while, then rounds The crescent's rims with splendors, so this queen Hath lost not queenliness. Being now obscured She shows true gold. — Nala and Daviayantt. Power is of constant effort. — The Book of Good Counsels. 182 May 31st 183 JUNE. Lily! uplifting pearly-petalled cups A sceptre thou — a silver-headed wand By lusty June — the Lord of Summer, waved To give to blade and bud his high command. Ah ! Vestal-bosomed — thou that all the May From maidenly reserve wouldst not depart, Till June's warm wooing won thee to display The golden secret hidden in thy heart. Without, look June: thy pearly love is smutched. That which doth wake her gentle beauty slays. Alas that nothing lovely lasts, if touched By aught more real than 3: longing gaze. 187 June ist. A form of heavenly mould Eyes like a hind's in love time, face so fair 'Words cannot paint its spell. — The Light of Asia. Never was here dull Pain or carping Sorrow, But ever bright to-day promises brighter morrow. — The Sirens. June 2d. Her eyes, those lamps of love. — The Light of Asia. To be no more felt, To fade, to melt In the strong certainty of joys immortal ; In the glad meeting. And quick sweet greeting Of lips that close beyond Time's shadowy portal. — The Indian Song of Songs. 188 June ist June 2dc 189 June 3d. Eyes that are full of a heavenly light Like sister stars in the front of night; Lips curving red like the crimson fold Of a half-shut rose in the early cold. — The Fah-ys Promise. Higher than Indra's ye may lift your lot, And sink it lower than the worm or gnat. — The Light of Asia. June 4th. 'Tis she I no other woman hath such grace ! — Nala and Damayanti. Give more than thou takest : If one shall salute thee, Saying, " Peace be upon thee," The salute which thou makest, Speak it friendlier still, As heseemeth goodwill. — The Pearls of the Faith. 190 June 3d. Jnue 4th. 191 u Qcw June 5th. Have with this embrace what faithful love Can think of thanks or frame for bension — Too little, seeing love's strong self is weak — that thou mayest know — What others will not — that I loved thee most Because I loved so well all living souls. — TAe Light of Asia. The good think evil slowly, and they pay Well for their faith. — The Book of Good Counsels. June 6th. I Where Kroona-flowers, that open at a lover's lightest tread. Break, and, for shame at what they hear, from white blush modest red; And all the spears on all the boughs of all th( Ketuk-glades 8 ^ w w Seem ready darts to pierce the hearts of wanderin youths and maids. — The Indian Song of Songs. 192 June 5th. June 6th, 193 June 7th. The glad Princess Laid sorrows by, and blossomed forth anew, As does the laughing earth when the rain falls, And brings her unseen, waiting wonders forth. — Nala and DamayaJiti. Give freely and receive, but take from none By greed, or force or fraud what is his own. — The Light of Asia. June 8th. The village-gates are set, and the night is grey as yet, God hath given wondrous fancies to thee: — sing! Then Jymul's supple fingers, with a touch that doubts and lingers. Sets athrill the saddest wire of all the six ; And the girls sit in a tangle, and hush the tinkling bangle, While the boys pile the flame with store of sticks — The Rajpoot's Wife. 194 June 7th. June 8th m June 9th. Enter me, Dearest Debtor for love which I shall ne'er discharge Save like a prodigal, by borrowing nev/ly. — Unpublished MS. The Sages teach, that to walk seven steps One with another, maketh good men friends. — Love and Death. June loth. In thee is seen why there is hope for man And where we hold the wheel of life at will. Peace go with thee, and comfort all thy days I — The Light of Asia. The heavenly Muses Three A branch of laurel gave, which they had plucked, To be my sceptre; and they breathed a song In music on my soul, and bade me set Things past and things to be to that high strain. — From Heriod. 196 June 9th. June loth. 197 June nth. Ever she waits thee in heavenly bower ; The lotus seeks not the wandering bee, The bee must find the flower. All the wood over her deep eyes roam, Marvelling sore where tarries the bee, Who leaves such leaves of nectar unsought As those that blossom for thee. — The Indian Song of Songs. June 12th. The lady who did take All eyes and hearts along, where'er her feet In moving made a music. — The Alchemist. * I will seek Who cast away my world to save my world.' — The Light of Asia. 198 June iiih. June 12 th. 1.99 June 13th. If, for society in that fair place, He gave glad companies. Kinsmen and friends and helpmates, and the bliss Of beauty's lips and eyes. — The Pearls of the Faith. Who always sings to all, " I wait, He loveth still who loveth late." — The Indian Song of Songs, June 14th. And vain ! yes, vain I For me too is it, having so much striven, To see this fine snare take thee, and thy soul Which should have climbed to mine, and shared my heaven. Spent on a lower loveliness, whose whole Passion of love were but a parody Of that kept here for thee. — The Indian Song of Songs. 200 June 13th. June 14th. 201 June 15th. Behind — before ye, shines Eternity, Visible as the vault's fathomless blue, Which is so deep the glance goes never through, Though nothing stays save depth. — The Pearls of the Faith. Two-fold is the life we live in — Fate and Will together run : Two wheels bear life's chariot onward — will it move on only one ? — The Book of Good Counsels, June i6th. " Over the breaking wave ; Having no neighbour but the rolling sea! No song but his rude music!" — Hero and Leander. It may be that the savage sea is foaming And wild winds roaming where thy ship goes free ; Yet still as dearly, brother, and sincerely, As if more nearly, we will cling to thee. — The Emigrant. 202 June 15th. June i6th. - June 17th. If she be wise and good, patient and true, Are not these virtues for a queen to wear. And for a king to wed ? — Grisdda. The right in thee is base, the wrong a curse ; Cheat such as love themselves. — The Light of Asia. 7.^ June i8th. .5 Midnight is not so dark and deep as was his solemn I gaze, . ^ ^ .2 ■ By love and pity lighted, as the night with silvery u IT ' H -_ rays. f§ I — The Pearls of the Faith, S o ' Tliough his sins were twenty thousand, twenty thousand J w She shall bring his soul to splendour, for her love ^<: so large and bold. — The Book of Good Counsels. 204 June 17th. June 18th. 205 June i9tho Strike soft strings to this soft measure since it tells Of a love that sweetly dwells In a tender distant glory, Past all faults of mortal story. — The Indian Song of Songs, Skilful, honest, and true-hearted. — The Book of Good Counsels. June 20th. What! the tears glisten? Indeed I would not wound thy little heart ; We'll be good friends, and kiss; but we must part, In sooth, — I may not listen. — From Aristippiis. Yet dost thou truly find it sweet enough Only to live ? Can life and love suffice ? — The Light of Asia. June 19th. June 20th. 207 June 21st. The dignity Of silver hairs is much. — The Pearls of the Faith. And I do think That out of this fair house, the inner soul, Shining, doth make it bright. — Griselda. June 2 2d. What is the bliss that is best on earth Lovers' light whispers and tender mirth ; Bright gleams the sun on the green sea's isle, But a brighter light has a woman's smile : Ever, like sunrise, fresh of hue, Taza ba taza, now ba now. — Taza ba Taza. June 2isl. June 22d. 209 rt *r (/)< June 23d. Will not sorrow clear me ? Shine once I speak one word pitiful and dearl Wilt thou not hear ? Cans't thou — because I did forget — forsake me? — The Indian Song of Songs. — sudden bliss, as if love should not fail Nor such vast sorrow miss to end in joy. — The Light of Asia, June 24th. ■>'S Seven foemen of all foemen, very hard to vanquish ?l be: ^ < The Truth-teller, the Just-dweller, and the man from < s l^"5 passion free, ^ g Subtle, self-sustained, and counting frequent well won Z Q g I victories, 'I' 2 And the man of many kinsmen — keep the peace with such as these. — The Book of Good Cotcnsels. 210 June 23d. June 24th. 211 — s June 25th. K — after storm and toil ^ And woes beneath the midnight and the noon, 3 Searching the wave I won therefrom a pearl a Moonlike and glorious. . . . Then came I glad S Unto mine hills. H w — T^e Light of Asia. O I In His sight alway o J^ How sweet are reverence and gentleness Done to His creatures. — The Pearls of the Faith. June 26th. ro With thee, with thee, whose love I Made all our dangers sweet ? ^ — The Enchanted Lake. q" z < o Messer Torello, at the inner gate, Id Waiting to take them in — a goodly host, o Stamped current with God's image for a man _^ Chief among men, truthful, and just, and free. § — A7;/p- Saladin. o "^ « 212 June 25th. June 26th. 213 June 27th. .« with these I The nigher towns and cities swarmed like bees ^ To see the show ; but most of all the youth : — 7; Ever they throng where feasts are ! — to tell truth, X 'Tis not, methinks, the shrine which draws them O o so, — w To see the maidens those light pilgrims go ! Pi ■^^ — //^ro and Leander. June 28th. As flame from torch to torch doth strike — The light of life shines on, bright, joyous, warm. — The Pearls of the Faith. The devils in the underworlds wear out Deeds that were wicked in an age gone by. Nothing endures : fair virtues waste with time. Foul sins grow purged thereby. — The Light of Asia. 214 June 27th. June 28th. 215 ^^ June 29th. o I Moonlight makes her mournful with radiance silvery; g Even the southern breeze blown fresh from pearly > M seas, > Seems to her but tainted by a dolorous brine. w — T/ie Indian Song of Songs. ^_ Noble hearts are golden vases — close the bond true metals make Easily the smith may weld them, harder far it is to break. — The Book of Good Counsels. June 30th. The sad world blesseth thee. — The Light of Asia. A pleasant palace under pleasant skies With cloistered courts and gilded galleries, By court and terrace, minaret and dome, Euphrates, rushing from his mountain home, Rested his rage, and curbed his crested pride To belt that palace with his bluest tide. — The Feast of Belshazzar. 216 June 29th. June 30th. 217 fc?^ JULY. Proud, on the bosom of the river White-winged, the vessels come and go, Dropping down with ingots to deliver. Drifting up lordly, on the flow. Glassed in the green waters under, Grand against the crimson of the sky, Kings of the sunshine and the thunder, Come they and go they in July. Meek, to the bosom of the river, White-leaved, the lily comes alone, P'rom water-grass and sedges climbing ever Who knows the lily-bud is blown ? Who cares to think the wind of summer Rocking the great ships to sea. Kissed as it passed that latest comer, Rocked the white lily and the bee ? Rocked the pale lily with its burden, Only a worker-bee at most, Working for nothing, save the guerdon To live on her honey in the frost. But on small things and large the summer shineth Over ships and over lily globes the sky. And the sender of the summer wind divineth, What portion each shall have of his July. 221 July ist. Marching down to Armageddon — Brothers stout and strong ! Let us cheer the way we tread on With a soldier's song ! Faint we by the weary road, Or fall we in the rout, Dirge or Paean, Death or Triumph ! Let the song ring out ! — A rm ageddon . July 2d. If sorrow falls, Take comfort still in deeming there may be A way to peace on earth by woes of ours. — T/ie Light of Asia. Oh, He sees And measures and bestows ; but what is kept. Beyond gifts here, for kindly hearts that love, God only wotteth, and the Eternal Peace. — The Pearls of the Faith. 222 July ist. July 2cL 223 a. July 3d. When the silver stars were throwing Soft lines on the silver sea Like a shade in the twilight showing Came my life unto me. — The Two Wreaths. More than was well the goodly things of earth Pleased thee, my pleasant brother ! — The Indian Idylls. July 4th. My heart stays here ! have pity ! let me know Thou giv'st me back some trifle, if not all ^ Of thine. Good-bye ! Good-night ! la buona sera ! vSleep soft, and think kind things of thy Vallera ! — La Nencia da Barberino. My heart resolved, my mouth hath spoken it, My hand shall execute. — Love and Death. 224 July 3d. July 4th. 225 __ July 5th. Aye ! and none H^ That laudeth worthily. ^ ^ — Griselda. ^5 Z D g g Truth is to heaven the best of ways, — ;- And a kind heart wins happy days. § — The Enchanted Lake. =^ 230 July 9th. July loth. 231 July nth. Radiant with heavenly pity, lost in care For those he knew not, save as fellow-lives. — The Light of Asia. But Peace hath victories of deed and word, Won with a subtler weapon than the sword: And civic wreaths a greener gleam display, Than th'fe stained garlands of the finished fray. — Congratulatory Address. July 12th. Her eyes can steal a shepherd's soul away Through wall of flesh, whenever she doth look', You see her, and you love, the self-same day, Albeit the story goes her heart is rock. — La Nencia da Barberino. Safe within the husk of silence guard the seed of counsel so That it break not — being broken, then the seedling will not grow. — 7he Book of Good Counsels. 232 July nth. July 12th. __ July 13th. o 00 , ~ ^ The constant virtues of the good, are tenderness and I love '^ To all that lives — in earth, air, sea — great, small — ■ •£ § below, above ; g Compassionate of heart, they keep a gentle thought ^ for each, y Kind in their actions, mild in will, and pitiful of < speech ; -^ Who pitieth not he hath not faith ; full many an one so lives, But when an enemy seeks help the good man gladly gives. — Love and Death. S. July 14th. t: 1 And so I grasp my purpose, and I swear BM To win the wreath that I am set to wear. ■0 o — Sonnet. Z OS kC/3 H - K z We draw the breath on trust — all — all, my Lord, oS2 Living the little minutes at the will 25 Of one given creditor, whose sudden stroke ^-— • Signs the acquittance with the blood of life. % — Griselda. " 234 July 13 th. July 14th, 235 _^ July 15th, o CO ^ The lesson that thy faithful love has taught him ■-3 He has heard ; a ^ The wind of spring obeying thee hath brought him o 5 At thy word. < — The Indian Song of Songs. >■ w The aching craze to live ends, and life glides — "^ Lifeless — to nameless quiet, nameless joy — Sinless, stirless rest. — The Light of Asia. July i6th. N . Banish care, c^ Soothe it with flutings, startle it with drums, I I Trick it with gold and velvets, till it glow 1, o "3 Into a seeming pleasure. a i: ^^ — Vernier. z ^ H ^ <^ Greeting fair and room to rest in, fire and water 'A ^ from the well — Simple gifts — are given freely in the house where -^ good men dwell. — The Book of Good Counsels. 236 2 July 15th. July i6th. 237 July 17th. Tear and smile go wondrous well together. Symbolism. He is become All which was shewn, a teacher of the wise, Who doth deliver men and save all flesh By sweetest speech and pity vast as Heaven. — The Light of Asia. Self-iove slays Our noble brother. The Indian Idylls. July i8th. We are they whose torn battalions Trained to bleed not fly ! Make our agonies a triumph — Conquer while we die ! — A7-megeddon. Ye take no more the meaning than one takes Measure of ocean by the cup that slakes His thirst, from rillet running to the. sea. — The Pearls of the Faith. 238 July 17 th. July i8th. July 19th. Valiant, wise, and true ; Victorious over sense, a worshipper ; , Liberal in giving, prudent, dear alike To peasant and to townsman : one whose joy Lived in the weal of all men. — Love and Death. Who practises what good he knows Himself a Brahmana he shows. — The Enchanted Lake. July 20th. The glossy golden lilies of the land Lost lustre in her hair; and that she owned The noble Norman eye — the violet eye Almost — so far and fine its lashes drooped. Wakened to purple. — Vernier. I know there might be woes to bear Would lay fond Patience with her face in dust. — The Light of ^sia. 240 July 191IL July 20th. 241 July 21st. The years of men are measured by the sun, And were not, until he his course begun ; And will not be, when his gold dial dies. — The Pea7-ls of the Faith. He who thinks a minute little, like a fool misuses more ; He who counts a cowry nothing, being wealthy will be poor. — The Book of Good Counsels. July 22d. His anger had a savage ground-swell in it : He loved to take his naps, too, to the minute. — " The Epic of the Lion.^^ From the French of Victor Hugo. We grieve because to-day is not to-morrow, Nor now, eternity. Change only rules unchanged in this wide world? The priestess that one morn decks us with flowers, The morrow, slays us for the sacrifice. — Griselda. 242 July 21st. July 22d. 243 July 23d. The very bravest of the very brave. — First Institution of the Victoria Cross. Who giveth not his child in marriage Is blaniable ; and blamable that king Who weddeth not : and blamable that son Who, when his father dieth, guardeth not His mother. — Love and Death. July 24th. If in my grasp that dear hand I could hold I'd not unclasp, to have mine filled with gold ! — La Nencia da Barberino. The Princess of thy House — — craves to see thy face As the night-blowing moon-flower's swelling heart Pines for the moon. — The Light of Asia. 244 July 23CI. July 24th, 245 __ July 25th. 06 Sn" I follow virtue, and I speak plain truth! ^ — Hero and Leauder. c Each hath such lordship as the loftiest ones ; 2 Nay, for with Powers above, around, below, < X As with all flesh and Vvfhatsoever lives, 2 Act maketh joy and woe. ;5 — The Light of Asia. w ^ Who, ere he makes a gain has spent it, _^_, Will repent it. — The Book of Good Coimsels. o CO ^ July 26th. o Ph Q^ Sweet one ! don't be too proud — for the (^ spring tide passes like dreaming. H — From the Greek of Bion. p u 'i Unto him who is thy brother, B. Unto kindred, friends also, o 1 Orphans, suppliants, sad ones, show 2 Gentleness and help ; to each -—' Speak with kind and courteous speech. g — The Pearls of the Faith. ^ 246 July 25th. July 26th. M7 July 27th. Sweet one ! whether Early or late we see thee, 'tis as neat And fair and wholesome as new-bolted wheat ! — La Neiicia da Barberino. — The man With senses naked to the sensible A helpless mirror of all shows which pass Across his heart. — The Light of Asia. July 28th. When a bird's wing stirs the roses, When a leaf falls dead, Twenty times he recomposes The flower-seat he has spread : Twenty times, with anxious glances Seeking thee in vain, Sighing ever by the river, Krishna droops again. — The Indian Song of Songs. 248 July 27th. July 28th. ■249 (- July 29th. She looked as fresh As stars at twilight or as April's heaven ; A floweret — you had said — divinely given, To show on earth how God's own lilies grow. — " The Epic of the Lion." From the French of Victor Hngo. None strips off These sad delights and pleasant griefs who lacks Knowledge to know them snares. — The Light of Asia. July 30th. "■^ Look'st thou, my Star, on the stars ? Ah ! God that I 5 were the heavens, ^j""^ How with my millions of eyes, I would look down o ^ ^ g upon thee. i ^ — From Plato. !j ^ 0(§ If I have kept the fast, S w Made sacrifices, given gifts, and wrought 7. < Service to holy men, may this black night —^ Be bright to those and thee. o — Lave and Death. ^ 250 July 29tlji. July 30th. 251 July 31st. I mind me not Of any boon the loving heart hath asked, Nor any one untimely word she spake ; Let it be as she prayeth. — Love and Death. Better few and chosen fighters than of shaven crowns a host, For in headlong flight confounded, with the base the brave are lost. — The Book of Good Counsels. 252 July 31st. 253 mimmimitit m^il iilliiliilUiiiiiiiiliiiilililiiiilliiiiiUlliiiiiiii AUGUST. Once with a landlord wondrous fine A weary guest I tarried, A golden pippin was his sign Upon a green branch carried. Mine host, he was an apple-tree, With whom I took niv leisure Fine fruit, mellowed juicily, He gave me of his treasure. There came to that same hostel gay Fine guests, in bright adorning A merry feast they made all day And chirped and slept till morning Then, to rest, my body laid C)n bed of crimson clover The landlord with his own broad shade Carefully spread me over. Him, I called to bring the score But '• no ! " he grandly boweth, Now, root and fruit, for ever more God bless him while he groweth. 257 August ist. 'Tis little she can lose giving one glance, But whoso wins it how his heart doth dance. — La Nencia da Barberino. They hear the watchman's call Mark the slow minutes on the leaguered wall, The clash of quivers and the ring of spears Make pleasant music in a soldier's ears. — The Feast of Belshazzar. August 2d. May thy bliss Last and increase for twice five thousand years. — Nala and Damayanti. There must be refuge ! men Perished in winter winds till some one smote fire From flint stones coldly hiding what they held The red sparks treasured from the kindling sun. — The Light of Asia. 258 August ist. August 2c1. 259 ^_ August 3d. d" Sweet Singer, it were good to hear ^ Many times more the voice so true and clear, 1 The voice that fashioned into silver speech ^ Found a quick to the heart of each, ^ Or flowing river-like in streams of song ^ Bore our souls river-like its waves along u 2 .......... a Thanks shall be paid and kind things thought of 5 thee '~' Who taught how sweet a mortal voice might be. — Fa/e. ^ August 4th. o •£ ' His comely form ^, Seemed nor too tall nor short. S — TAe Sainfs Temptation, u I r. I Like beacon-bell on some wild island shore, £ Silvery ringing in the tempests roar, C Whose sound borne shipward through the midnight 1h gloom — Tells of the path, and tmns her from her doom. o — The Feast of Belshazzar. August 3d. August 4th. 261 August 5th. — unto all that live He giveth, and He loveth those who give. — The Pearls of the Faith. — who is wise feeds his sense No longer on false shows, fills his firm mind To seek not, strive not, wrong not ; bearing meek All ills which flow from foregone wrongfulness — till all the sum of ended life Grows pure and sinless. — The Light of Asia. August 6th. And fastened on her ankles the hundred silver bells, To whose light laugh of music the Nautch-girl darts and dwells. And all in dress a Nautch-girl, but all in heart a queen, She set her foot to stirrup with a sad and settled mien. — The Rajpoot's Wife. Let "us do our part to-day. — Armageddon. August 51I1. Auc;usT 6th. 263 August yth. When we both are very weary Heart of mine, And all before is dreary Heart of mine With never a friend to love us, And life's sky black above us. Shall we faint because they prove us, Heart of mine ? — Heaj't of Mine. August 8th. — that which did impose The gentle law, that each should be ,^ The other's Heav'n and harmony. J I — The htdian Son^ of Sojtgs > ^ gjS Nay, but stay! it can't be really ii. § G All a solemn sterling pound, O z 2 ^ I've seen so few — I'll ring it fairly : ——' Mammon ! there s a sound ! g — The Poor Scholar to his Pound Sterling. « 264 iliPM August 7 th. August 8th. 265 August 9th. He loved, — the truest, newest lip That ever lover pressed, — The queen) iest mouth of all the south Long love for him confessed. — Rest. Within ourselves deliverance must be sought Each man his prison makes. — The Light of Asia. August 10th. A dimple in her "chin my love hath got Which makes her bright laugh lovelier to see. There is no single charm she boasteth not I think dame Nature framed her purposely So fair, so fine, so noble, and so tender That all the world might worship to her render. — La Nencia da Barberino. 266 August 9th. AuGusi loih 26: August nth. Co " I pray thee let me see thy hand ; ^3 I have some skill at palmistry." o t« •'Tis there, g g Not fair, but very frank : what canst thou read ? H W ^ J "A world of meanings in its tender white ; 53 o ^^ And goodness, gentleness, and maidenhood, o w In its blue-veined beauty." ^ '"> — Griselda. ■^ August 12 th. I I burn with love ; love makes me bold to sing cl^ Praise of the damsel who undoes my heart; -a tf Each time I think a little tender thing o o ^^^ About her. u a — La Nencia da Barber iiio. E ^ o S.2 ^^ To foeman who so dreadful, to friend what heart so a 3 true ? J u — The Rajpoofs Wife. ^^ :^ Ascetics, very holy^ seeking still The heavenward road. — Nala and Damayanti. August 2 2d. "^ Sweeter than honey, and more dear to see o ^ Than any loveliness on land or sea § By bard or lover praised, or famed in story. (^ — The Pearls of the Faiih. d Q w The dewdrop and the star shine sisterly — Globing together in the common work. g — The Lf^ht of Asia. =« 278 AjGUST 2 1 St. August 2 2d. 279 August 23 d. Lady of grace ! Iler quiet lips' light touch were like a rose leaf. — Griselda. Only one Judge is just, for only One Knoweth the hearts of men ; and hearts alone Are guilty, or are guiltless. — The Pearls of the Faith. This gave me strange joy ! — The Saiufs Temptation. August 24th. Oh heart too hard ! what maiden would not render Love to a lover loving her like me .'' Who else would melt not, and wax honey-tender Seeing me suffer thus : Ah, Nencia ! see ! Thou knowest I am so faithful ; must it end here The pain which should be crowned with joy by thee. — La Agenda da Barberino. He that hath strength hath strength. — The Book of Good Counsels. August 23d, August 24111. 281 SEPTEMBER. The harvest moon stands on the sea, Her golden rim's a-drip; She lights the sheaves on many a lea. The sails on many a ship : Glitter, sweet Queen, on silver spray And glimmer on the heather ; Right fair thy ray to shew the way When lovers walk together. The red wheat rustles, and the vines Are purple to the root. And true-love, waiting patient, wins Its blessed time of fruit; Lamp of all lovers, Lady-moon, Light these ripe lips together Which reap alone a harvest sown Long ere September weather. 293 August 27th. Roses grow from dew, and smiles from weeping, Sweetest smile is made of saddest tear-drop. — Symbolism. Siddartha answered, " Friend, that love is false Which clings to love for selfish sweets of love." — 77^1? Light of Asia. Be of good heart. — The Book of Good Counsels. August 28th. Never are noble spirits Poor while their like survive ; True love has gems to render, And virtue wealth to give. Never is lost or wasted The goodness of the good ; Never against a mercy, Against a right, it stood ; And seeing this, that virtue Is always friend to all, The virtuous and true-hearted, Men their " protectors " call. — Love and Death. 284 AuGUsi 2 7lh, AuGUsr 28th. August 29th. Yet he was fair, Oh! very fair, — nay, almost fair enough To love, if only it were well to love ; And if to love were to be loved again, And if, and if, and if — — Griselda. Peace abide with me ! — Nala and Damayanti. August 30th. There grew, A lovely, stately, lustrous maid, Whose beauty was so rich to see No verse can tell it worthily. — The Pearls of the Faith, We are they who will not take From palace, priest, or code, A meaner Law than ' Brotherhood," — A lower Lord than God. ^ — Armageddon. August 29ih. August 30th. 287 August 31st. jT-S Lute! breathe thy lowest in ir.y lady's ear, •fz Sing while she sleeps, "ah! belle dame, amiez-vous ? ' tSa Till dreaming still, she dream that I am here, > w <-^ And wake to find it, as my love is, true. « s — Sei'enade. §,« Dead though he be, that mortal lives Au Whose virtuous memory survives. 2 — The Enchanted Lake. August 31st. 269 SEPTEMBER. The harvest moon stands on the sea, Her golden rim's a-drip ; She lights the sheaves on many a lea. The sails on many a ship : Glitter, sweet Queen, on silver spray And glimmer on the heather ; Right fair thy ray to shew the way When lovers walk together. The red wheat rustles, and the vines Are purple to the root, And true-love, waiting patient, wins Its blessed time of fruit; Lamp of all lovers, Lady-moon, Light these ripe lips together Which reap alone a harvest sown Long ere September weather. p September ist. 3 3 3 I pray to God : To send you both of his good grace delights, I And pleasance, and fair fortunes, and long loves H Unto your life's end. I — Griselda. 3 3 3 \ -they \ Checking the jangling bits, and chiding down \ . The unfinished laugh to listen — ; (g — King Saladin. I) « 2 "^ September 2d. vD Thus, as the manner of all maidens is, 5 Her soft lips rated, though her heart was his; '% And he by love's quick instinct knew it so, ^ And let her dear delicious accents flow 5 In anger musical, for when maids scold, Q- With looks that pardon, lovers may be bold. ss < — Hero and Leander. Mar not your gifts with grudging word or will. — The Pearls of the Faith, September ist. September 2d. 2d5 __ September 3d. € Speed this spell ! if it brings you, ^ Delphis, love shall live anew : "^^ If in vain I watch and wait, « < Delphis, love will turn to hate ! o 2 — From Theocritus. B O ^ Wise men, holding wisdom highest, scorn delights as false as fair. Daily live they as Death's fingers twined already in their hair. — The Book of Good Counsels. September 4th. -'^ For seeking still to know where thou art, Rover, u Bj We but discover that our love is there ; ^ Far, far behind thee, we are strong to find thee, 1 Oh then remind thee of the love left here. u — The Emigrant. >> i We Q 2 Hate this accursed flesh which clogs the soul -7- That fain would rise. § — The Light of Asia. September 3d. September 4th. 297 September 5th. With Him of all things secret are the keys; None other hath them, but He hath; and sees Whatever is in land, or air, or water. Each bloom that blows, each foam-bell on the seas. — The Pearls of the Faith. — The gods reward thy love Which hath such honor. — Nala and Damayanti. September 6th. In paths of peace and virtue Always the good remain; And sorrow shall not stay with them Nor long access of pain ; At meeting or at parting Joys to their bosom strike; For good to good is friendly, And virtue loves her like. — Lcwi' and Death. September 5th. Septemher 6th. 299 September 7th. Ah, soul! with hope and watching worn, Mourn not thy leafless spring! The joyless days of life were born The joyful ones to bring. — Wait Yet. Thy race counteth a hundred thrones From Maha Sammat, but no deed like this. — The Light of Asia. September 8th. And I sink my spear head bright- As beseemeth younger knight, And I kneel, but not to yield For I keep the tented field And the challenge — none so fine ! None a hand — like Katherine. — Alia Mano della Mia Donna. Sense-life " false in its gladness, false in sadness. — The Light of Asia. 300 September 7th. September 8th. 301 September 9th. Little but welcome, and a right good will We have to greet you with ; but these are yours, As free as words can make 'em. — Griselda. What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall con- well. — The Light of Asia. September 10th. I think I never spoke a false word once In all my life, not even in jest ; I pray My truth may help to-night them, thee, and me I — Love and Death. Let each art Assail a fault, or help a merit grow. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show. — The flight of Asia. 302 September 9th. September loth. 303 September nth. Ah ! beauty, rich and rare If thou be casket to a mind like thee, There were a piece of quaint and perfect work Worthy a monarch's winning. — Griselda. When he doth rise they rise again with bud and blossom ripe, To bask awhile in his warm smile, who is their lord and life. — The Book of Good Counsels. September J2th. And now her singing all the feast enhances ! And, dancing, now all dancers she out-dances ! — La Nencia da Barberino. Lo ! I would pour my blood if it could stay Thy tears and win the secret of that curse Which makes sweet love our anguish, and which drives O'er flowers and pastures to the sacrifice. — The Light of Asia. 304 September nth. September 12 th. 305 September 13th. To the music the banded bees make him He closeth his ear ; In the blossoms their small horns are blowing The honey-song clear. — The Indian Song of Songs. Thy piety, thy purity, thy fasts, The largesse of thy hands, thy heart's wide love. Thy strength of faith, have pleased. — Love and Death. September 14th. Lead me with the sound of song, Sweep solemn music forth from balanced wings, And leave it cloud-like in the fluttered sky, That I may feel and follow. — The Lost Pleiad. Gems will no man's life sustain, Best of all gold is golden grain. — The Book of Good Counsels, 306 Septembkr 13th, Septemrer 14th, 3(Wr September 15th. How like a heavenly angel she doth come ! — La Nencia da Barberino. Fancies fair his mind do throng, Like pictures palace-walls along. — The Indian Song of Songs. Paradise is for them that check their wrath, And pardon sins; so Allah doth with souls; He loveth best him who himself controls. — The Pearls of the Faith. September i6th. Thereat, with running ditty of mingled pain and pity, Jymul Rao makes the six wires sigh ; And the girls with tearful eyes note the music's fall and rise, And the boys let the fire fade and die. — The Rajpoot's Wife. Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse, Clear minds, clean bodies, need no Soma juice. — The Light of Asia, September i^th. September i6th. 309 __ September 17th. 00 ^ Here the crystal sword 'S Of Michael gave the light they journeyed through. H — T/ie Pearls of the Faith. o u Feed him with food of that rich fruit which grows ^ On stems of splendid learning ; dower him still If) '— ' With gifts of eloquence to vanquish those Who err; — let soft persuasion change their will. — FrojH Theocritus. September i8th. Then bade they him Gaze in the stream which glided stilly, 'Mid water-roses and white lily, Under those lawns and smiling skies That make delight in Paradise. — The Pearls of the Faith. Fast to his word, unenvious, sweet of speech Gentle, and valiant, dutiful and pure. — Nala and Damayanti. .310 September 17th. September i8th 311 September 19th. Of old, they said, the Graces were but three ; Yet each sweet charm of Hero, as it seemed, With love-spells of a hundred Graces gleamed. Well was she worthy to be Venus' maid ! — Hero and Leander. Is he a liberal giver? Loveth he virtue? Wears he noble airs? Goeth he like a prince, with sweet proud looks? — Love and Death. September 20th. All the while her head Droops like a snow-drop when the neighbours, mus- tered. Praise her. — La Nencia da Barberino. Many a house of life Hath held me — seeking ever him who v/rought These prisons of the senses, sorrow-fraught; Sore was my ceaseless strife ! — The Light of Asia. 312 September 19th. bEPTEMBER 20th. 318 __ September 21st. S Be master of thyself, if thou wilt be ^ Servant of Duty. (^ — Love and Death. < § After laughter ever follows tears, p And Pleasure ever brings his Shadow, Pain. cAj — November. o 'A J Good things come not out of bad things, wisely leave 5 a longed-for ill, ~'~' Nectar being mixed with poison serves no purpose ^ but to kill. — The Book of Good Counsels. ^ September 2 2d. a g^ By every husband nourished and protected ^-■g Should every wife be. |-g — Na/a and Datnayantt. §^ ^t He, for whose smile the pale-eyed scholar prayed ; ^^ lie, for whose glance the gay mantilla stayed! g J — The Island of Trees. o w Q < O X X - Man hath no fate except past deeds, —' No Hell but what he makes. g — The Li^ht of Asia. « 3X4 September 21st September 22d. 315 September 23d. Beautiful ! Thy words Delight me ; they are excellent, and teach Wisdom unto the wise, singing soft truth. — Love and Death, — the gates Of that bright Paradise which waits The wise in love. Ah, human creatures ! Even your phantasies are teachers. — The Pearls of the Faith. September 24th. Love is the vow which fills my life, And makes my heart elate. — The Saint's Temptation. What magic taught thee more Of manhood 'mid thy rose -bowers and thy dreams Than war and chase and world's work bring to these } — The Light of Asia. Sunshine still must follow rain ! — The Peails of the Faith. 316 September 23d. September 24th. 817 September 25th. Sfj;* Never tires the fire of burning, o §< Never wearies death of slaying, (/TO Nor the sea of drinking rivers sj Nor the bright-eyed of betraying. ^ «" — The Book of Good Counsels. <^ X w §0 — her babe knowing, belike, as children know, I More than we deem and reverencing our Lord. 5 ^ —The Light of Asia. September 26th. I know nought of thy mind. — The Enchanted Lake. Yudhisthira knew his time was come, Knew that life passes and that virtue lasts, And put aside their love. — The Great Journey. — Sin which flows from strife, some sweet. Some bitter. — The Light of Asia. 318 September 2 5thc September 26th. 319 September 27th. Of all which live or shall live Upon earth's hills and fields, Pure hearts are the "protectors," For virtue saves and shields. — Love and Death. Foe is friend, and friend is foe, As our actions make them so. — The Book of Good Counsels. September 28th. Nay! when one speaks of that, how deft she is! There's no such nimble worker in the land. You never saw such skill. — La Nencia da Barherino. The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music flies; The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies ; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high. — The Light of Asia. 320 September 27th. September 28th. September 29th. 'Tis very like thou wilt not hold me hence In fair remembrance. — Griselda. " Yon cloud which floats in heaven," the Prince re- plied, " Wreathed like gold cloth around your Indra's throne, Rose thither from the tempest-driven sea. — The Light of Asia. May you be as lucky as you hope. — The Book of Good Counsels. September 30th. I am moved By those soft words ; justly their accents fell. And sweet and reasonable was their sense. — Love aitd Death. — that fair love which doth not feed On fleeting sense, that life which knows no age. That blessed last of deaths when Death is dead. — The Light of Asia. September 29111= September 30th. 323 ' ^ ■"«ii«»*.„,„ OCTOBER. A bold brunette she is, radiant with mirth, Who comes a-tripping over corn-fields cropped ; Fruit, flowers, and full ears, from her garland dropped, Carpet her feet along the gladdened earth; For round her brow glitters a careless crown Of bronzed oak, and apple leaves, and vine ; And russet nuts and country berries twine About her gleaming shoulders and loose gown. Like grape at vintage, when its ripe blood glows. Glows so her sweet cheek, summer touched but fair. And like grape tendrils, all her wealth of hair, Gold on a ground of brown, nods as she goes. Ah! golden autumn hours — fly not so fast! Let the glad Lady long with us delay; The sunset makes the sun so wished for stay Of three fair sisters — loveliest and the last. m October ist. Well content Because she saw love lighted in his heart. — The Sainfs Tetftptation. Men Fear so to die they are afraid to fear, Lust so to live they dare not love their life. — The Light of Asia. So be friendship never parted, — The Book of Good Counsels. October 2d. O rare voice, which is a spell Unto all on earth who dwell ! O rich voice of rapturous love. Making melody above ! — The Indian Song of Songs. Sons are the second souls of man; And wives the heaven-sent friends. — The Enchanted Lake. 328 October ist. October 2d. 329 October ;^d. Life's thirst quenches itself With draughts which double thirst. — T/ie Light of Asia. There be four sins, O Sakra, grievous sins; The first is making suppliants despair, The second is to slay a nursing v.'ife, The third is spoiling Brahman's goods by force, The fourth is injuring an ancient friend. — The Indian Idylls. October 4th. Gentle and true, simple and kind was she, Noble of mien, with gracious speech to all And gladsome looks — a pearl of womanhood. — The Light of Asia. Sweeter I call thy strain than the tinkle of water that trickles, Tinckling, and trickling, and rippling adown the green shelves of the mountain. — From Theocritus. 330 October 3d. OCTOl^ER 4th, 831 c « October 5th. All my heart is fixed to think how Love Might save its sweetness from the slayer, Time, Who makes men old. — The Light of Asia. — words are as breath And will is all. — The Pearls of the Faith. Who loveth most of saints is first. — The Enchanted Lake. October 6th. Her cheek was touched with tender dye o« Such as new rosebuds have — not white nor red, >^ But sunlit-snow ; in sooth you would have said ^■^ She was all made of rose leaves, she did show o^ So fair and fine under her thin gown's flow, K Such rose-leaf arms ! such roseate shoulders ! Q g — Hero and Leander. "^ 332 October 5 th. October 6th. 383 October 7 th. Let the wonder Of thy dark blessed eyes gleam on me ! come ! Eyes which befit thy beauteous breast and brow Being angelic, and an angel thou. — La Neiicia da Barherino. Master of himself, and sternly steadfast to the right- ful way : Very mindful of past service, valiant, faithful, true of heart. — The Book of Good Counsels. October 8th. Her eyes Speak so that Krishna cannot choose but send her message back. — The Indian Song of Songs. Hast thou never watched, awaiting till the great man's door unbarred ? Didst thou never linger parting, saying many a sad last word.? Spak'st thou never word of folly, one light thing thou would'st recall ? Rare and noble hath thy life been ! Fair thy fortune did befall! — The Book of Good Counsels. 334 October 7th. October 8th. October 9th. He took some faded leaves and flowers up And idly handled them ; but while his hands Toyed with them, lo ! they blossomed forth again With lovelier life than ever. — Nala and Damayanti. Halt traveller ! Rest i' the shade ; then up and leave it ! Stay soul! take fill of love, nor losing, grieve it! — 77^1? Book of Good Counsels. October 10th. Lovely and gentle and wise is she, I love her most truly and faithfully. — The Fairy s Promise. The likeness of the evil heart, bestowing That men may praise, is as the thin-clad peak, Wherefrom the rain washes all soil for growing, Leaving the hard rock naked, fruitless, bleak. — The Peaj'ls of the Faith. 336 October 9th. October loth 337 October nth. 'Tis bitter to know that we are not the best In the earnest strife for an honored name ; That a lower heart and a colder breast Hath more of the books than ourselves may claim. — Defeat. To the green banks where quick Payoshni runs Seaward between her hermitages, rich In fruit and roots. — Nala and Damaya?tti. October J2th. Measure not with words. Th' Immeasurable; nor sink the string of thought Into the Fathomless. Who asks doth err, Who answers, errs. Say nought ! — The Light of Asia. Which virtue of virtues is first } and which bears most fruit } To bear no malice is the best ; And reverence is fruitfullest. — lyw Enchanted Lake. October nth. October i2tb. 339 October 13th. For Love hath many wiles to heal the heart Of those that bleed with his unshunned dart ; And, of himself, will comisel oft afford To those of whom th' Almighty Boy is Lord. — Hero and Leander. The twitter of the sun-birds starting forth To find the honey ere the bees be out. — The Light of Asia. October 14th. Brunettes, and the Banyan's shadow, Well-springs, and a brick-built wall, Are all alike cool in the summer, And warm in the winter — all. — The Book of Good Counsels. What good gift have my brothers, but it came From search and strife and loving sacrifice } — The Light of Asia. 340 October 13th. October 14th. 341 October 15th. Gracious and loving, dutiful and dear. — Love and Death. Splendor-throned queen ! immortal Aphrodite ! Daughter of Jove — Enchantress ! I implore thee Vex not my soul with agonies and anguish ; Slay me not, Goddess — From Sappho. Anger is man's unconquered foe. — The Enchanted Lake. October i6th. Long — long ago, but soon to grow real, To end, and be waking and certain and true; Of which dear surety murmur her lips. As the lips of sleepers do. — The Indian Song of Songs. By worship rightly man doth go. — The Enchanted Lake. 342 October 15 th. October r6th. 343 October 17 th. But thou'lt go now, — Take hence the tresses of thy hyacinth hair. — Nay, nay ! unbind them not, — 'tis over fair, — Keep the baud on thy brow. — Frotn Arisiippus. Her stainless cheeks have all the softened light Of misted marble, chiselled smooth and dainty ; Amid the blooms of Beauty she is Rose ; The wide world no such lovely wonder shews. - — La Nencia da Barberi7io. October i8th. Oh ! leave the withered Past, And turn ye to the time that liveth now. Will ye be looking in the fallen leaves For the green beauty of the parted Spring "i Or will ye seek in last year's naked nest The speckled egg it cradled ? — Past, Present and Fjiture. — gentleness is chief of virtues. — Nala and Damayanti. 344 October 17th. October i8th. 345 October 19th. High on the turret many an autumn eve, When the light, merry swallow tried his plumes For foreign flight, she gave him messages, — Fond messages of love. — Vernier. Tender and true, whose virtue was thy crown, Whose royalty — was royally to live. — Ode to the Princess Alice. October 20th, So, swimming to his love, He steered with face set hard where that ray shone, Ship — pilot — rower — merchant, all in one. — Hero and Leander. He who gave the swan her silver And the hawk her plumes of pride. And his purples to the peacock, — He will verily provide. — The Book of Good Counsels. 346 October 19 th. October 20th. 347 _^ October 21st. ^d -"Jir Ah! not to love is sad and hard, o ~ •^1 And yet to love is heavy pain ; gj But harder, heavier it is, w^ Fondly to love, and love in vain. o c . H 5 Green glades where pea fowl sported, crystal streams, J H g % And soaring hills whose green sides burned with blooms. << — Love and Death. October 2 2d. A girlish rose with shut leaves, waiting dawn To open and make daylight beautiful. — TAe Light of Asia. His nobleness he had of none. War's Master taught him war, And prouder praise that Master gave than meaner lips can mar ; Gone to his grave, his duty done; if farther any seek, He left his life to answer them, — a soldier's, — let it speak. — In Memoriam. 348 October 21st. October 2 2d, 349 October 23d. Strong affection, stronger ever, Honour true and tried, Trust and courage failing never, Patience and high pride. — The Casket. Better for the proud of spirit, death, than life with losses told; Fire consents to be extinguished, but submits not to be cold. — The Book of Good Counsels. October 24th. By art Men vanquish fortune and the mightiest odds. — The Night of Slaughter. Sorrow is Shadow to life, moving where life doth move; Not to be laid aside until one lays Living aside, with all its changing states. Birth, growth, decay, love, hatred, pleasure, pain, Being and doing. — The Light of Asia. 350 October 23d. C)CTOBER 24th. 351 October 25 th. But never once Saw I a girl so dear, discreet and taking With cheek, and neck and nape, and dimpled chin ~ So smooth and white, or of such perfect making : Her eyes ! 'tis like torchlight, when feasts begin, To feel their lids lift, and their glance awaking jo)'ance. — La Nencia da Barberino. Queen Venus sure hath made the youngest Grace Her minister this morn ! — Hero and Leander. October 26th. Sweet is the lower air and safe, and known The homely levels ; only strong ones leave The nest each makes his own. — The Light of Asia. Wind of the Indian stream ! A little — oh! a little — breathe once more The fragrance like his mouth's ! blow from thy shore A last word as he fades into a dream. — The hidian Song of Songs. 352 OCIOBER 25111. October 26lh. 353 October 27 th. Exceeding marvellous is this thy gift; I burn to know such learning, how it comes. — Nala and Damayanti. Wilt thou ride hence and let the rich world slip Out of thy grasp, to hold a beggar's bowl ? — The Light of Asia. All ^en scorn the soulless coward, who his manhood doth forget. — The Book of Good Counsels. October 28th. So fair and graceful, of all feasts the queen. — La Nencia da Barberino. Who doth right deeds Is twice-born, and who doeth ill deeds vile. — The Light of Asia. Not disparagement nor slander kills the spirit of the brave ; Fling a torch down, upward ever burns the brilliant flame it gave. — The Book of Good Counsels, 354 October 27th, October 28tho 355 October 29th. They say there wander mighty powers on earth In strange disguises, who, divinely sprung, Veil themselves from us under human mould. — A'a/a a}id Damayatiti. Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood, Which runneth of one hue, nor caste in tears, Which trickle salt with all. — 7 'he Lit; /if of Asia. October 30th. Sigh not " so young ! "" — " such promise ! " — " Ah ! ^1 flower o = That longer life had sunned to fruit of gold." 1 2 Be still and see ! God's year, and day, and hour, >^^ By lapse of mortal minutes is not told. i 3 — Ilicet. '-' u ^^ That miracle, with eyes purple and soft Ho As lotus petals, that pure perfect maid, ^-^ Whose face shed heavenly light where she did go. o • — Love and Death. « 356 ;^ October 29th. October 3otho 357 October 31st. (Halloween.) One morning in Medina walked our Lord Among the tombs: glad was the dawn, and broad On headstones and on footstones sunshine lay ; Earth seemed so fair, 'twas hard to be away. "O people of the graves!" Muhammad said, " Peace be with you ! Your caravan of dead Hath passed the defile, and we living ones Forget what men ye were, of whom the sons. And what your merchandise and where ye went; But Allah knows these things ! — The Pearls of the Faith. 358 OCTOEER ^ISt. 359 NOVEMBER. Come! in thy veil of sombre cloud, With mists around thee, like a shroud, And wan face, colored with no beam Of morning's glow, or evening's gleam; I would not see thee glad or gay, Dark month ! that took my love away ! I would not see thee otherwise. Grey month! that* hath the stormy skies; Cold month ! that creeps with wintry hands Freezing the waters and the lands : So didst thou chill my heart one day. Drear month ! that called my love away. And yet I know — behind thy mists The gold sun shines, love's star subsists ; If we could lift thy veil — maybe — Thy tender face were sweet to see ! Come as thou wilt. I say not nay. Sad month ! that led my love away. November ist. Dead, but on dead foreheads wearing Crowns that make their death a birth, Won by hope that scorned despairing. Won in heaven for wars on earth. All saints now, all now abiding In glad homes beyond the sky, Wearing, where salt tears were tiding Smiles of set felicity. — All Saints'' Day. November 2c1. Look! the clay dries into iron, But the potter moulds the clay. Destiny to-day is master — Man was master yesterday. — T/ie Book of Good Counsels. The greater beareth with the lesser love So it may raise it unto easier heights. — T/ie Light of Asia. 364 November ist. November 2d. 365 November 3d. Small service is true service when the will, And not the work, is rated. I had rather A cup of water from a willing hand. Than a great bowl of purple Cyprus wine Meted me drop by drop. — Griselda. — no Heaven too high For those to reach whose passions sleep subdued. — The Li^ht of Asia. November 4th. And if an evil nature knew The sacred Vedas through and through With all the Srutis, still must we Lower than honest Sudra* be. — The Enchanted Lake. All will go well. — The Book of Good Counsels. *The name of the lowest caste. 36G November 3d. November 4th. 367 November 5th. As above the bloom the bee, When the honeyed revelry Is too subtle-sweet an one Not to hang and dally on. — TJic Indian Song of Songs. Oh ! thou wilt love her. Nay! I do. — Gr is el da. November 6th. Ifath she a charm To witch all hearts to her ? There's not a tongue That hath not learned to laud her. — Griselda. And thou too art so womanly, and resolute of will So eloquent of other's good, so silent, of their ill. — Lament. November 5th. November 6th. 369 November 7th. Whence came ye; and the people of the groves; The streams, the seas, the wilderness, the air ; I>easts, fishes, fowl ; each with their lives and loves, Each glad to be, each in its kind so fair ? — 71ie Pearls of the Faith. Many a knave wins fair opinions standing in fair company. — The Book of Good Counsels. November 8th. Weep not for him ! He sits with kings and heroes who are passed Into the everlasting, happy home, Where no wars are, nor wounds, and good men dwell. — The Birth of Death. When life dies like a white flame spent. Death dies along with it. — The Liqhi of Asia. 370 November jih. November 8th. 371 November 9th. No hurt he does, kind to all living things; True of word is he, faithful, liberal, just; Steadfast and patient, temperate and pure. — N^ala and Damayanti Grief and loss come not anigh you, Glory guide and magnify you — The Book of Good Counsels, November 10th. Men Who love their sins and cleave to cheats of sense, And drink of errors from a thousand springs, Having no mind to see, nor strength to break The fleshy snare which binds them. — The Light of Asia. Courtesy may cover malice. — The Book of Good Counsels. 372 November 9th. November loth. 373 November nth. o The still small voices of the summer day, <: The red Sirocco and the breath of May, 2 The lingering harmony in ocean shells, The fairy music of the meadow bells, s <; Have words to whisper, tongues to tell his name. 2 g — The Feast of Belshazzar. I bid thee for the good of all. — The Birth of Death. November J2th. " All the seasons there, The thunder of the mournful main I hear." — Hero and Leander. Yet she is fair — oh! very, — very fair. — Venice. — all this spacious earth Hath not a spot more dear and hallowed. — The Light of Asia. 374 Z < November nth. November i2tho 375 November 13th, For self contempt is stronger than scorn, It tortures the spirit most wrathfully. — Defeat. Not Circe with her silver wand And wildest witching smile, Could pierce the heart with so sweet a smart As the girls of our own free isle. — The Fairest of the Fair. November 14th. Though base be the Herald, nor hinder nor let, For the mouth of a king is he; The sword may be whet and the battle set, But the word of his message is free. — The Book of Good Counsels. "Long be thy bliss! And lightly fall on him the load of life ! ' — The Light of Asia. 37 G November 13th. November 14th. 377 E r<; November 15th. The man with many kinsmen answers with them al attacks. — The Book of Good Counsels. The wings of the wind have left fanning The palms of the glade ; They are dead, and the blossoms seem dying In the place where we played. — The Indian Song of Songs. November i6th. It was in April that my heart was caught, The day I saw thee plucking herbs and cresses — I spake thee fair, but thou didst answer naught And frowned, because folks passed, tossing thy tresses — La Nencia da Barbcriiio. Veil after veil will lift — but there must be Veil upon veil behind. — The Liiiht of Asia. 378 November 15th. November i6th. 373 November ijth. Let every soul Heed what it doth to-day, because to-morrow The same thing it shall find gone forward there To meet and make and judge it. — T^e Pearls of the Faith. The touch Flowir-soft and conquering, of a woman's hands. — The Light of Asia i November i8th. TS^. Thine own self is the stream for thee to make ab- ^^ lutions in : oJS In self-restraint it rises pure — flows clear in tide of •cv truth, a" o 2" By widening banks of wisdom, in waves of peace and §^ ruth. 72 Q — The Book of Good Counsels. < < — There is no grief like ITate ! —7" No pains like Passions, no deceit like Sense ! I — The Light of Asia. November 17th. November 18th. 381 November 19th. Of the wife the lord is jewel, though no gems upon her beam ; Lacking him, she lacks adornment, howsoever her jewels gleam. — The Book of Good Counsels. — he is to me Brighter than light which gleams from lotus cups, Divine as are the immortals, dear as breath, The master of my life, my pride, my jov. — A\ila ajid Damayaiiti. November 20th. — and earth's foundations laid So broad and hard, To be your dwelling place; And Heaven's star-jewelled face Arched for your roof-top. — The Pearls of the Faith. Pleasant friends drive pain away. — The Book of Good Counsels. 382 November 19th. November 20th. November 21st. Calmly and silent as the fair full moon, Comes sailing upward in the sky of June. — Hero and Leander. Heaven is there Where love and faith make heaven. — The Indian Idylls. November 22d. By their own deed, men go downward, Hy them men mount upward all Like the diggers of a well, and like the builders of a wall. — The Book of Good Counsels. Reading, learning, praying, still Are outward deeds which ofttimes leave Barren of fruit minds that believe. — The Indian Idylls. 384 NoVEM13ER 2 I St. November 2 2d. 385 November 23CI. I like it well! Its jewels, making quaint and equal strife With red and blue, mock lips and eyes to life ; There let them ever dwell. — Frofu AristippHS. That it should be well For him and his, — Love and Death. November 24th. Horses he loved, and ofttimes would he mould Coursers of clay, or paint them on the wall. — Love and Death. The wisest doctors say, " In every woe No better physic is than wifely love." — Nala and Dattiayanti. November 23d. November 24th. 387 November 25th, She too, the dear and queenly, — she Whose perfect virtue paradise must crown. — llie Indian Idylls. Our trust thou art ! — The Enckanted Lake. A mother's heart outweighs the earth. — The Enchanted Lake. November 26th. Look ! the restless sea is sleeping, Milk-white ripple curling, creeping! Listen! all the winds are quiet, Folded up from rage and riot ! Only in my heart the pain Wakes, and will not sleep again ! — From Lheocritus. November 25th. November 26th.. November 27th. The greatness of this deed which helps the world ; For therefore ride I, not for men alone, I>ut for all things which, speechless, share our pain And have no hope, nor wit to ask for hope. — The Light of Asia. Sigh of doubt or shade of sorrow 111 beseenieth heart or brow. — A// Saints'' Day. November 28th. I'll liken thee to fairy cloudland gleams Which mix the welkin and the world together ; I will compare thee unto Dian's beams Who round poor cabins sheds her silver weathei — La Nencia da Barhcrino, My little noble girl. — Grischta. 390 November 27th. November 28th. 391 Ph CO November 29th. Never all hei- life Wrought our sweet lady one thing wrong, I think. — The Great yoicrncy. — gallant, kind, Reverent, self governed, gentle, equitable, Modest and constant. J,ustice lives in him And Honor guides. — Love and Death. November 30th. And sing him strains which only spirits know, And make him captive with the silk-soft chain Of twinned-wings brooding round him, and bestow Kisses of Paradise, as pure as rain. — The Indian Song of Songs. O unknown one, who shinest like the splendour of a ^ star, < I Peace and good will ! for due to thee my salutations are. — The Saint^s Temptation. 392 November 2gth. November 30th. DECEMBER. In spangle of frost, and stars of snow, Unto his end the Year doth wend ; And sad for some the days did go, And glad for some were beginning and end; But, sad or glad, grieve not for his death, Mournfully counting your measures of breath ; You that, before the worlds began, Were seed of woman and surety of man; You that are older than Aldebaran ! It was l)ut a whirl round about the sun, A silver dance of the planets done, A step in the Infinite Minuet AVhich the great stars pace to a music set By Life Immortal and Love Divine Which sounds, in your span of threescore and ten, One chord of the Harmony, fair and fine. Of What did make you women and men. In spangle of frost, and stars of snow Sad or glad — let the Old Year go ! December ist. For Winter came apace, with snow and frost, And wild storms whistling up and down the coast: Lashed to its depths the tortured ocean shrank, While the wind drove its billows, rank on rank, Scourging their crests milk-white ; all sailors then Drew up their ships upon the shore, for men Fear the fierce winter and the furious sea. — Hero and Leander. December 2d. This is that Blossom on our human tree Which opens once in many myriad years — But opened, fills the world with Wisdom's scent And Love's dropped honey. — The Light of Asm. Thunder for nothing, like December's cloud Basses unmarked ; strike hard, but speak not loud. — The Book of Good Counsels. 398 December ist. December 2d. 399 December 3d. I culled a posy of snow-blossomed spray, With buds and berries gathered here and there, It was for thee; but thou didst turn away So grand ! — La Nencia da Barberino. Evil swells the debts to pay. Good delivers and acquits. — The Light of Asia. December 4th. A governed heart, thinking no thought but good, Makes crowded houses holy solitude. — The Book of Good Counsels. Good fellowship hath any man with him To whom Heaven's ear as quick inclines itself As doth a mother's when her babe lisps love. — The Pearls of the Faith. 400 December 3d. December 4th. 401 December 5111. They who, as wakened eagles, soar with scorn From life's low vale, and wing towards the Sun- — The Light of Asia. When he spoke, those honeyed words which fell, Gladdened my heart and passed into my soul Deep — deep, till dearer seemed it than the notes Of Koils piping ! — The Sainfs Temptation. a December 6fli. = Fellow be with kindly foenicn, rather than with friends '\2 unkind ; I Friend and foeman are distinguished not by title but o ' by mind. g — The Book of Good Counsels. g Till life glided beguiled like a smooth stream u Banked by perpetual flowers. >; — The Light of Asia. o ■ 402 December 5th. December 6th. 403 December 7th. That time doth keep for us some happy years, That God hath portioned us our smiles and tears, Thou knowest, and I know. — A Ma Ftittire. — Be friends, Take and give pleasure in glad company Each with the other, keeping happy hearts. — Nala and Damayanti, December 8th. My month, I trow. Wears the red berries, and stars of snow. — January. Loosen from thy foot the bang Lest its golden bell. With a tiny, tattling jangle. Any false tale tell. — The Indian Song of Songs. 404 December 7th, December 8th. 405 December 9th. Over the spangled grass Swept the swift footsteps of the lovely Light Turning the tears of Night to joyous gems, Decking the earth with radiance, 'broidering The sinking storm-clouds with a golden fringe. — The Light of Asia. — for all Our good deeds needs must be so small. — The Pearls of the Faith. December 10th. Shall such friends ever be broken "i No! No! they shall stand Hand fast in hand. — The Wreck of the " Northern Belle.' Long tried friends are friends to cleave to. — The Bfiok of Good Counsels. 406 December 9th. December loth. 407 December nth. How can I live and lose him? How not go Whither love draws me for a soul loved so? How yet endure such sorrow? — or how cease? — llie Indian Song of Songs. This which thou hast done Shall bring thee good and bring all creatures good Be sure I love thee always for thy love. — The Light of Asia, December T2th. Oh, voice ! . . . As night's bird, soft to hear. — Ode to Florence Nightingale. Like some delighted bird at sudden streams Weary with flight o'er endless wastes of sand, Which laves the desert dust from neck and crest. — The Light of Asia. 408 December i i th. December T2th. 409 December 13th. — So wretched Apart from hers, — his spirit, bad and sad, Muses and moans, with grief's slow fire consumed Night time, and day time. — Ahjla and Damayaufi. The night that scents her breath so sweet With cool and musky odours. — Tlic Indian Song of Songs. December 14th. Till none can tell whether those be Blue lotus-blooms, seen veiledly Under the wave, or mirrored gems Reflected from the diadems Bound on the brows of mighty gods. — Tlie fndiau Song of Songs. 410 DECEMr.p:R 13th. December 14th. 411 December 15th. Kind is kin, howe'er a stranger — Kin unkind is stranger shown. — The Book of Good Cowisels. — all hearts did she gain By gentle actions, soft self-government, Patience and peace. — Love and Death. December i6th. Happily was I lodged. Well-tended, well-befriended in thy house. — Nala and Damayanti. Faith and Right, Being preserved, save all, and, being lost, Leave nought to save. — The Enchanted Lake. 412 December 15th. December i6th. 413 December 17th. I pray ye answer me, Is there among ye here one I have wronged ? I have borne rule, judging in Allah's name. That am a man and sinful ; have I judged Unrighteously, or wrathfully, or pressed Too hard in the amend ? — The Pearls of the Faith. December i8th. Like the mighty deep, Which sees the moon and rises, all his life Uprose to drink her beams. — The Indian Song of Songs. As thou art pearl of princesses, so he Is crown of princes. — N^ala and Dainayanti. 414 December 17 th. 13ECEMBEK 1 8th. 415 December 19th. He entereth town by town, Preaching those noble ways which lead to peace, The hearts of men follow his path as leaves Troop to the wind or sheep draw after one Who knows the pastures. — The Pearls of the Faith. December 20th. Lords! he hath mended fault with wisdom. — The Pearls of the Faith. Greeting as warm, and joy as deep and proud. As though that greeting and that joy were loud, And faith as firm, and love as true we bear, Though Past and Present mingle smile and tear. — Congratulatory Address, 416 December 19th. December 20th. 417 J, December 21st. 1 ^ to •" %;^ There came one night, the wildest of the year, ;z;§ When the wind smote like edge of hissing spear, ., I And the pale breakers thundered on the beach ; oc'C vS'f^ ........... Zu Billow on billow rolled, the great seas roared .^ Furiously leaping to the clouds, which poured C - Sleet and brine back, with scream of winds that met ^^ Midway from all the quarters: — Eurus set ^M His blast against the West Wind; Notus blew — 1^ — ^ His cheeks to bursting, Boreas to subdue. — I/e?'o and Leaiider. ^ December 2 2d. c a U •« — as December's moon °. Curbs the quick ripples into crystal swoon. — -S — /Zero and Leander. <: « He is not worthy of this pearl ^ Who is not worthiest. ^ — The Light of Asia. n s '^ Mine is the month that is born in the snow. i ' — yanuary, \ 418 December 21st. December 2 2d 419 December 23d. What ! the tears glisten ? Indeed I would not wound thy little heart; We'll be good friends, and kiss ; but we must part. In sooth, — I may not listen. — From Aristippus. Life and Death are one to us. — Armageddon. i December 24th. •'00 ' " '-' g^_ 'Tis good that thy name springs -^ From two of earth's fair things — S z ^^ A stately city and a soft-voiced bird; -• % 'Tis well that in all homes, K X, When thy sweet story comes, Bs And brave eyes fill— that pleasant sounds be heard. z — Ode to Florence Nightingale. I 420 December 23d. December 24th. 421 December 25th. Yet to be courtly is not to be wise, Nor just, nor generous, nor valiant; And many goods strong gold is weak to buy. — Griselda. It was in our hearts to find thee best, Being dearest. — The Light of Asia. December 26th. She whose gentle hand I praise Woman is, with woman's ways. And I hold this gage of mine, None a hand — like Katharine. — Alia Mono dclla Mia donna. Bonnie he was when he fleeched my heart, — I hadna the heart to gie 'him the nay. -Effie. December 25th. December 26th. 423 December 27th. Fair, golden-haired, and glad with the joy of her youth and her beauty. — Dedication. The warrior-gaze, as innocent of fear As any maid's of shame, — which, past the guilt And blood and battle, sees the triumph clear. — The Statue of Havelock. December 28th. Command me any deed that seemeth good In those dear eyes and I shall straight obey. I know some promise thus abundantly Who would not spoil a pair of shoes for thee. — La Nencia da Barherino. So bold in wifely purity, So holy by her love, and so upheld. — Love and Death. 424 December 27th. December 28th. 425 December 29th. Fair, be sure, was this great lady. Eyes, I guess, whose blue Cold and calm, but beaming steady Tender seemed and true. Certes, of a noble presence. Dutiful and staid, Worthiness was glad before her — Worthlessness dismayed. — Sioanscombe Church. December 30th. It may be that they read our purpose wrongly, And ere they learn to know them, learn to fear The unresting hands, which silently, but strongly, Carve the broad pathway of the coming year. — An Apology. Pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong. — The Light of Asia. December 29th. December 30th, 427 -^ December 31st. CO 2 Some fair frozen lady < Whose blood is all too courtly to run quick. K — Gr is el da. u D K Chime the bells to a marriage chime, S Strike the strings to a birthday song, S For the fairest daughter of Father Time I For the lady who cometh to live with us long. 'O -v— — yVew Year's Eve. 428 December 31st. 429 OLD YEAR. Leave your ingles warm and cheery, gaze into the midnight dreary, Where the old year lies a-dying, — dying in the frost and snow; Gaze, and while his heavy breathing rises like the mists a-wreathing ; While the far stars shake and shudder at the passing of his soul ; When the death draws ever nearer, and the drear night waxes drearer, Chaunt your " Miserere mei " solemnly, and toll the toll. «15 'if Index of Names. A B 431 Index of Names. D 432 Index of Names. 433 Index of Names. G H 434 Index of , Names. I-J K 435 Index of Names. M Index of Names. N O 431 Index of Names. Q 43S Index of Names. R 430 Index of Names. T U— V 440 Index of Names. W X— Y— Z 441 615 .-•sr LIBRARY