Edwin Arnold Quotes

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The sunbeams dropped
Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,
Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,
As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.

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Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.

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Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

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For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

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How lizard fed on ant, and snake on him, And kite on both; and how the fish-hawk robbed The fish-tiger of that which it had seized; The shrike chasing the bulbul, which did chase The jeweled butterflies; till everywhere Each slew a slayer and in turn was slain, Life living upon death.

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The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.

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Antelopes, pied and spotted; antelopes Like great white bulls and cows; black antelopes Horned as with spears; and one, purple with cream Having striped shanks, dropped flanks, and ass's tail And four soft horns.

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Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked), plain, good, useful, but not adorable.

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He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all his friends:—
Faithful friends! It lies I know
Pale and white and cold as snow;
And ye say, 'Abdallah's dead!'
Weeping at the feet and head.
I can see your falling tears,
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this:
I am not the thing you kiss.
Cease your tears and let it lie;
It was mine—it is not I.

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Nor ever once ashamed
So we be named
Press-men; Slaves of the Lamp; Servants of Light.

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Almond blossom, sent to teach us
That the spring days soon will reach us.

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It makes sweet human music, — oh! the spells that haunt the trembling tale a bright-eyed maiden tells!

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Early violets blue and white
Dying for their love of light.

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A little rain will fill the lily's cup, which hardly moists the field.

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Blossom of the almond trees,
April's gift to April's bees.

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Who doth right deeds
Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

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Pity and need
Make all flesh kin. There is no caste in blood.

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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 come well.

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Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit forever. Death hath not touched it all, dead though the house of it seems!

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Below the highest sphere four Regents sit
Who rule our world, and under them are zones
Nearer, but high, where saintliest spirits dead
Wait thrice ten thousand years, then live again;
And on Lord Buddha, waiting in that sky,
Came for our sakes the five sure signs of birth
So that the Devas knew the signs, and said
"Buddha will go again to help the World."
"Yea!" spake He, "now I go to help the World.
This last of many times; for birth and death
End hence for me and those who learn my Law.
I will go down among the Sakyas,
Under the southward snows of Himalay,
Where pious people live and a just King."

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We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life,
A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

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With a bee in every bell,
Almond bloom, we greet thee well.

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Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep, — wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, even to the meanest, — yea, a boon to all where pity is; for pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

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