When the creation was new and all
splendor, the gods held their asse
`Oh, the picture of perfection! th
But one cried of a sudden
——`It seems that somewhere there i

Lips’ language to lips’ ears.
Two drinking each other’s heart, i
Two roving loves who have left hom
pilgrims to the confluence of lips
Two waves rise by the law of love

When I bring you coloured toys, m
is such a play of colours on cloud
painted in tints—when I give colou
When I sing to make you dance, I
in leaves, and why waves send thei

I run as a musk-deer runs in the s
The night is the night of mid-May
I lose my way and I wander, I see
From my heart comes out and dances
The gleaming vision flits on.

When the lamp went out by my bed
I sat at my open window with a fre
The young traveller came along the
A pearl chain was on his neck, and
For very shame I could not say, “

Lest I should know you too easily
You blind me with flashes of laugh
I know, I know your art;
You never say the word you would.
Lest I should prize you not, you

An unbelieving smile flits on your
I have done it so often that you t
To tell you the truth I have the
For the spring days come again tim
But keep the illusion awhile; do n

She dwelt here by the pool with it
an evening she had watched the moo
bamboo leaves, and on many a rainy
had come to her over the young sho
Her pet name is known here among t

The same stream of life that runs
runs through the world and dances
It is the same life that shoots in
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves o

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SOME unseen fingers, like idle b
are playing upon my heart the musi
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‘WHAT language is thine, O sea?’