Let My Country AwakeSunshine Publishing House, 1926 - 245 pages |
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Akbar ancient Bali beloved Bhikkhus Blessed Brahma Brahmin Buddha Buddhist century court cult damsel death deity divine drink Dushyanta earth Eternal European father flower forest gentle give goddess gods gopis Gothic art Greeks Hakim hand head heart hero Hindu Hiranyaksha honour human Indian art Indian artist Indian music Indian painting Indian sculpture Jehangir jharokha king knowest Krishna land left thee Let them say living Lord lotus Madhavya Mahomedan maid maiden medicine ment Mogul mother Motherland Naga nature night Nur Jehan o'er painters palace Persian Phidias philosophy physical beauty physician poet Prahlada prince Princess Queen Raag Radha Rajput painting Rama Ramayana Ratnavali religious Ruksh rupees Rustum Rutules Satyavan save our Ind Savitri Shah Jehan shining Sing Siva Siva's Sohrab song soul spirit surgery surgical surkhs sweet Taan temples things Thyself tion tomb Truth ture Urvasi Vatsa Vishnu weep worship
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Page 24 - But a dark rumour will be bruited up, From tribe to tribe, until it reach her ear; And then will that defenceless woman learn That Sohrab will rejoice her sight no more; But that in battle with a nameless foe, By the far-distant Oxus, he is slain.
Page 25 - With his head bowing to the ground and mane Sweeping the dust, came near, and in mute woe First to the one then to the other...
Page 27 - And seen the River of Helmund, and the Lake Of Zirrah ; and the aged Zal himself Has often stroked thy neck, and given thee food, Corn in a golden platter soak'd with wine, And said : O Ruksh! bear Rustum well!
Page 187 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before...
Page 192 - So shall my walk be close with God, Calm and serene my frame ; So purer light shall mark the road That leads me to the Lamb.
Page 25 - Ruksh, now thou grievest; but, O Ruksh, thy feet Should first have rotted on their nimble joints, Or ere they brought thy master to this field!" But Sohrab look'd upon the horse and said: — "Is this, then, Ruksh? How often, in past days, My mother told me of thee, thou brave steed, My terrible father's terrible horse! and...
Page 119 - Even the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans, the idealism of reason, as it is set forth by the Greek philosophers, appears, in comparison with the abundant light and vigour of oriental idealism, like a feeble Promethean spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun, faltering and feeble and ever ready to be extinguished.
Page 27 - Kohik, and where the Kalmuks feed their sheep, The northern Sir ; and this great Oxus stream, The yellow Oxus, by whose brink I die.
Page 138 - There was neither existence, nor non-existence, The kingdom of air, nor the sky beyond. What was there to contain, to cover in — Was it but vast, unfathomed depths of water? There was no death there, nor Immortality. No sun was there, dividing day from night. Then was there only THAT, resting within itself. Apart from it, there was not anything. At first within the darkness veiled in darkness, Chaos unknowable, the All lay hid. Till straightway from the formless void made manifest By the great...