No. 98, s\\\M English • Classic • Series i-i-i_i_i_i_i_i_i_i_i_i_i_i_i #*^"^T°'*% ^9^ •:sv^^^. SELECTED POEMS te — • m BY Edwin Arnold, Ji i=Ei i-i_i_i_i_i_i_i_i NEW YORK: Epfingham Maynard & Co., PUBLISHERS, 771 Broadway AND 67 & 69 Ninth St. "^ ENGLISH Classic Series. KEIiliOGG'S EDITIONS. Shakespeare's Plays. jEacb lp>lai2 In Qnc IDolume. Text Carefully Expurgated for Use in Mixed Classes. With Portrait, Notes, Introduction to Shakespeare's Qrammar, Exam- ination Papers and Plan of Study. (SELECTED.) By BRAINERD KELLOGG, LL.D., Professor of the English Language and Literature in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, author of a " Text-Book on Rhetoric," a " Text-Book on English Literature," and one of the authors of Reed & Kellogg's ''Lessons in English." The notes have been especially prepared and selected from editions by eminent English scholars to meet the requirements of School and College Students. 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Sheeidai^, High School, New Haven, Conn. NEW YORK : Effingham Maynard & Co., Publishers, 771 Broadway and 67 & 69 Ninth Street. New Series, No. 8. Januaiv 28, 1S92. Published Semi-weekly. Subscription Price $10 Entered at Poat Oflttce, New York, as Second-class Matter. A Complete Course in the Study of English. spelling, Language, Grammar, Composition, Literature. REED'S Word Lessons-A Complete Speller. Reed's Introductory Language Work. Reed & Kellogg's Graded Lessons in English. Reed & Kellogg's Higher Lessons in English. Reed & Kellogg's One-Book Course in English. KELLOGG'S Text-Book on Rhetoric. KELLOGG'S Text-Book on English Literature. In the preparation of this series the authors have had one object clearly in view — to so develop the study of the English language as to present a complete, progressive course, from the Spelling-Book to the study of English Literature. The troublesome contradictions which arise in using books arranged by different authors on these subjects, and which require much time for explanation in the school- room, will be avoided by the use of the above "Complete Course." Teachers are earnestly invited to examine these books. Effingham MayNARD & Co., Publishers, 771 Broadway, New York. Copyright, 1892, By EFFINGHAM MAYNARD & CO. SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, M.A., K.C.I.E., C.S.I. Sir Edwin Arnold, poet, Sanskrit scholar, and journalist, was born June 10, 1832 : and was educated at King's School, Rochester ; at King's College, London ; and at Oxford. In 1852 he won the Newdegate prize for English verse. After graduation he was appointed second master of King Edward VI, 's College at Birming- ham, but was soon after sent to India as principal of the Sanskrit college at Poonah, in the presidency of Bombay, with a fellowship in the University of Bombay. He held this position from 1857 to 1861. Then, returning to England, he became one of the editorial staff of the Daily Telegraph, with which paper he has ever since been connected. He is a constant and earnest writer, and one of the best author- ities on Eastern questions. He it was who suggested the sending of the George Smith expedition to Assyria ; at his suggestion, too, the Daily Telegraph co-operated with the New York Herald in equipping Stanley for his explorations in Africa. Among his works are the following : Griselda, a drama ; numer- ous translations from the Greek and Sanskrit ; an annotated copy of the Hitopadega, with a vocabulary in English, Sanskrit, and Mahratti ; a translation of the Oita-Govinda under the title The Indian Song of Songs ; a translation of the Hitopadega under the title The Book of Good Counsels ; The Education of India ; and I'he History of the Administration of India under the late Marquis of Dalhousie. He is probably best known for his poems The Light of Asia and The Light of the World. The former tells of the life and teaching of Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. The author's purpose is to give to Europeans a fair view of Buddh- ism as a religious system, and to promote greater sympathy and cordiality among the races of the British Empire. His Light of 3 4 SELECTED POEMS. the World, tlie divine tragedy of the life and deatli of Christ, comes more closely home to the bosoms of men. His volume of Indian Poetry contains translations from the Mahdhhdrata and Pearh of the Faith. In the latter he attempts to do for Moham- medanism what he has already done for Buddhism and Brahman* ism. Sir Edwin Arnold married an American lady, grand-niece of the theologian Dr. W. E. Channing. In the autumn of 1891 he made a tour of the principal cities of the United States, giving readings from his most noted works, " Never since the throne of English Song was filled by Shake- speare, to whom {longo intercallo) Lord Tennyson is a w^orthy successor, has any single sovereign had such peers as he in Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Sir Edwin Arnold. They cannot be said to resemble each other as the Elizabethan poets resembled each other, and it is one of their great distinctions that they do not, each dwelling in his own lordly pleasure-house, and triumphing in his ow^n realm of thought and feeling — Browning in the domain of spiritual tragedy, Arnold in the cloister of scholarly meditation, Swinburne in the halls of stormy harmony, Rossetti in the border-land between things seen and unseen, Morris in a paradise of earthly visions and fantasies, and Sir Edwin in the barbaric splendors of the Orient, the shadowy maze of its mythology, and the mysterious light of its speculation." One who has seen Sir Edwin in the bosom of his family says : "If you know 'The Light of Asia,' you have the essence of Sir Edwin Arnold's personality : ' Soft speech, and willing service sweetly rendered.' . . . When any one verged on the personal — and we all talked freely — it was a lesson to hear Sir Edwin suggest *ome gentle or charitable way of putting the same speech — always deliciously humorous." This writer adds : " When he was last in India, one day a concourse of Indian priests, eighteen hundred in all, as- sembled to greet him, carpeting with flowers the road on which he walked. The welcome he met with was not short of adora- tion, and the Indian peoples told him : 'You have made him live again to us I You have said for us what he is to us ! Our sweet Lord Buddha ! ' " SELECTED POEMS. The selections liere given are taken from the following volumes : I. Light of Asia. II. Light op the World, III. Pearls of the Faith. IV. With Sa'di in the Garden. V. Lotus and Jewel. VI. Miscellaneous Poems. I. The Light of Asia. (selections.) " A generation ago little or nothing was known in Europe of this great faith of Asia, which had nevertheless existed during twenty-four centuries, and at this day surpasses, in the number of its followers and the area of its prevalence, any other form of creed. Four hundred and seventy millions of our race live and die in the tenets of Gautama ; and the spiritual domin- ions of this ancient teacher extend, at the present time, from Nepaul and Ceylon over the whole Eastern Peninsula to China, Japan, Thibet, Central Asia, Siberia, and even Swedish Lapland More than a third of man- kind, therefore, owe tiieir moral and religious ideas to this illustrious prince, whose personality, though imperfectly revealed in the existing sources of information, cannot but appear the highest, gentlest, holiest, and most be- neficent, with one exception, in the history of Thought." — From Author's Preface. Book the First. The Scrijjture of the Saviour of the Worlds Lord Buddha — Prince Sidddrtha styled on earth — 2. Gautama was his personal name, given to him at the name-giving ceremony. When he attained perfect wisdom, he assumed the title Buddha — "the Enh'ghtened." All other names are epithets: Sidd a it ha meaus '"one who has fulfilled the object (of his coming);" Tathdgato means "who comes and goes as his predecessors." 5 SELECTED POEMS. In Earth and Heavens and Hells McomparaJble, All-honored, Wisest^ Best, most Pitiful; The Teacher of Nirvana and the lata. Thus came he to be born again for men. Below the highest spheres four Regents sit Who rule our world, and under them are zones Nearer, but nigh, 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, - 10 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. 15 I will go down among the Sakyas, Under the southward snows of Himalay, Where pious people live and a just King." That night the wife of King Suddhodana, Maya the Queen, asleep beside her Lord, 20 Dreamed a strange dream ; dreamed that a star from heaven Splendid, six-rayed, in color rosy-pearl, Whereof the token was an elephant Six-tusked and whiter than Vahuka's milk, — Shot through the void and, shining into her, 25 Entered her womb upon the right. Awaked, Bliss beyond mortal mother's filled her breast, And over half the earth a lovely light Forewent the morn. The strong hills shook ; the waves Sank lulled ; all flowers that blow by day came forth 30 As 'twere high noon ; down to the farthest bells Passed the Queen's joy, as when warm sunshine thrills 11. Deva or Dev (Hind, mythology). — A god; a deitj-; an idol; a king. 16. Sakyas.— .'\n Aryan clan, seated during the fifth century B.C. on the bank of the Kohana, about 100 miles north of the city of Benares, and about 50 miles south of the foot of the Himalayas. 19. SuddhAdana.— Chief of the tribe of the Sakyas, and rajah of Kapila- vastu (placed somewhere on the confines of Oude and Nepaul). fl 4 THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 7 Wood-glooms to gold, and into all the deeps A tender whisper pierced. "Oh ye," it said, " The dead that are to live, the live who die, Uprise, and hear, and hope ! Buddha is come !" In this wise was the holy Buddha born. 5 Queen Maya stood at noon, her days fulfilled, Under a Palsa in the Palace-grounds, A stately trunk, straight as a temple-shaft, With crown of glossy leaves and fragrant blooms ; And, knowing the time come — for all things knew — 10 The conscious tree bent down its boughs to make A bower about Queen Maya's majesty. And Earth put forth a thousand sudden flowers To spread a couch, while, ready for the bath, The rock hard by gave out a limpid stream 15 Of crystal flow. So brought she forth her child Pangless — he having on his perfect form The marks, thirty and two, of blessed birth ; Of which the great news to the Palace came. But when they brought the painted palanquin 20 To fetch him home, the bearers of the poles Were the four Regents of the Earth, come down From Mount Sumeru — they who write men's deeds On brazen plates — the Angel of the East, Whose hosts are clad in silver robes, and bear 25 Targets of pearl : the Angel of the South, W^hose horsemen, the Kumbhandas, ride blue steeds, With sapphire shields : the Angel of the W^est, By Nagas followed, riding steeds blood-red, With coral shields : the Angel of the North, 30 7. Palsa.— The palaga-tree, a familiar leafy forest-tree in India. 23. Mt. Sumeru is. according to Buddhist belief, the center of the world, —as deep in the ocean as it is high above its level. This ocean is inclosed by a girdle of rocks, within six other concentric oceans with similar girdles. The whole stands again in the genuine ocean known to men. 27. Kunibhanflas.— A class of demons. 29 Naga is the name of deified serpents. Their king is Sesha, the sacred serpent of Vishnu. 30. Angel of the 'Sorth.—Kiibera. god of wealth; East, India; West, Varuna; South, Yaina. These are the guardians of the world. 8 SELECTED POEMS. Environed by his Yakshas, all in gold, On yellow horses, bearing shields of gold. These, with their pomp invisible, came down And took the poles, in caste and outward garb Like bearers, yet most mighty gods ; and gods Walked free with men that day, though men knew not : For Heaven was filled with gladness for Earth's sake, Knowing Lord Buddha thus was come again. When th' eighth year passed The careful King bethought to teach his son 10 All that a Prince should learn, for still he shunned The too vast presage of those miracles. The glories and the sufferings of a Buddh. So, in full council of his Ministers, " Who is the wisest man, great sirs," he asked, 15 " To teach my Prince that which a Prince should know?" Whereto gave answer each with instant voice, " King I Viswamitra is the wisest one, The farthest-seen in Scriptures, and the best In learning, and the manual arts, and all." 20 Thus Viswamitra came and heard commands ; And, on a day found fortunate, the Prince Took up his slate of ox-red sandal-wood, All-beautified by gems around the rim, And sprinkled smooth with dust of emery, 25 These took lie, and his writing-stick, and stood With eyes bent down before the Sage, who said, " Child, write this Scripture," speaking low the verse *• Gayatri" named, which only High-born hear : — Om, tatsaviturvarenyam 30 Bhargo devasya dlilmahi Bliiyo yo na prachodaydt. 1. Yakshas [later Hindoo myth].— Name of a kind of demigods who especially attend on the god of riches. 29. G^yatri is the name of a Sanskrit hymn used in morning and evening worship. 30, Om. — A combination of letters invested with peculiar sanctity; a sym- bol representing the Trinity. d THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 9 *' Acharya, I write," meekly replied The Prince, and quickly on the dust he drew — Not in one script, but many characters — The sacred verse. But Viswamitra heard it on his face 5 Prostrate before the boy ; " For thou," he cried, " Art Teacher of thy teachers — thou, not I, Art Guru. Oh, I worship thee, sweet Prince ! That comest to my school only to show Thou knowest all without the books, and know'st 10 Fair reverence besides." Which reverence Lord Buddha kept to all his schoolmasters, Albeit beyond their learning taught ; in speech Right gentle, yet so wise ; princely of mien. Yet softly-mannered ; modest, deferent, 15 And tender-hearted, though of fearless blood ; No bolder horseman in the youthful band E'er rode in gay chase of the shy gazelles ; No keener driver of the chariot In mimic contest scoured the Palace-courts ; 20 Yet in mid-play the boy would ofttimes pause, Letting the deer pass free ; would ofttimes yield His half- won race because the laboring steeds Fetched painful breath ; or if his princely mates Saddened to lose, or if some wistful dream 25 Swept o'er his thoughts. And ever with the years Waxed this compassionateness of our Lord, Even as a great tree grows from two soft leaves, To spread its shade afar ; but hardly yet Knew the young child of sorrow, pain, or tears, 30 Save as strange names for things not felt by kings, Nor ever to be felt. But on another day the King said, " Come, Sweet son ! and see the pleasaunce of the spring, 1. Acharya.— Priest. 8. G^r A. —Teacher; " venerable one.''' 10 SELECTED POEMS. And how the fruitful earth is wooed to yield Its riches to the reaper ; how my realm — Which shall be thiue when the pile flames for me — Feeds all its mouths and keeps the King's chest filled. Fair is the season with new leaves, bright blooms, 5 Green grass and cries of plow-time." So they rode Into a land of wells and gardens, where. All up and down the rich red loam, the steers Strained their strong shoulders in the creaking yoke Dragging the plows ; the fat soil rose and rolled 10 In smooth dark waves back from the plow ; who drove Planted both feet upon the leaping share To make the furrows deep ; among the palms The tinkle of the rippling water rang. And where it ran the glad earth 'broidered it 15 With balsams and the spears of lemon-grass. Elsewhere were sowers who went forth to sow ; And all the jungle laughed with nesting songs, And all the thickets rustled with small life Of lizard, bee, beetle, and creeping things 20 Pleased at the spring-time. In the mango-sprays The sun-birds flashed ; alone at his green forge Toiled the loud coppersmith ; bee-eaters hawked Chasing the purple butterflies ; beneath. Striped squirrels raced, the mynas perked and picked, 25 The nine brown sisters chattered in the thorn, The pied fish-tiger hung above the pool, The egrets stalked among the buffaloes. The kites sailed circles in the golden air ; Above the painted temple peacocks flew, 30 The blue doves cooed from every well, far off The village drums beat for some marriage-feast : All things spoke peace and plenty, and the Prince Saw and rejoiced. But, looking deep, he saw 25. Myna.-Starlingj; probably the talking starling, or religious grackle, of India. 28. Kgret.— A kind of heron. THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 11 The thorns which grow upon this rose of life : How the swart peasant sweated for his wage, Toiling for leave to live ; and how he urged The great-eyed oxen through the flaming hours, Goading their velvet flanks : then marked he, too, 5 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 10 Each slew a slayer and in turn was slain. Life living upon death The Prince Siddartha sighed. " Is this," he said, " That happy earth they brought me forth to see ?" " Go aside 15 A space, and let me muse on what ye show." So vast a pity filled him, such wide love For living things, such passion to heal pain. That by their stress his princely spirit passed To ecstasy, and, purged from mortal taint 20 Of sense and self, the boy attained thereat Dhyana, first step of " the path." Book the Fourth. Then strode he forth into the gloom and cried, " Channa, awake ! and bring out Kautaka !" " What would my lord ?" the charioteer replied — 25 Slow-rising from his place beside the gate — " To ride at night when all the ways are dark ?" 9. Bulbul.— Nigrhtingale. 22. The key of the wliole scheme of Buddhist salvation lies in the four sublime verities. The first asserts that pain exists; the second, that the cause of pain is desire or attachment; tlie thiid, that pain can he ended by Nirvana; the fourth shows the way that leads to Nirvana. This way con- sists in eight things: liight, Faitli; Kight Judgment; Right Purpose; Riglit Practice; Right Language; Riglit Obedience; Right Memory; Right Medi- tation. 12 SELECTED POEMS. " Speak low," Siddartha said, " and bring my horse, For now the hour is come when I should quit This golden prison where my heart lives caged To find the truth ; which henceforth will I seek, For all men's sake, until the truth be found." 5 Book the Seventh. Nathless the King broke forth, " Ends it in this That great Siddartha steals into his realm, Wrapped in a clout, shorn, sandaled, craving food Of low-borns, he whose life was as a God's ?" ''Son ! why is this?" 10 " My Father ! " came reply, " It is the custom of my race." "Thy race," Answered the King, " counteth a hundred thrones From Maha Sammat, but no deed like this." 15 "Not of a mortal line," the Master said, " I spake, but of descent invisible, The Buddhas who have been and who shall be : Of these am I, and what they did I do. " " And with all lowly love 20 Proffer, where it is owed for tender debts, The first-fruits of the treasure he hath brought ; Which now I proffer." Then the King amazed Inquired ' ' What treasure ?" and the Teacher took 25 Meekly the royal palm, and while they paced Through worshiping streets — the Princess and the- King On either side— he told the things which make For peace and pureness, those Four noble Truths Which hold all wisdom as shores shut the seas, 30 Those eight right Rules whereby who will may walk — 15. Maha.— Great. THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 13 Monarch or slave— upon the perfect Path That hath its Stages Four and Precepts Eight, Whereby whoso will live — mighty or mean, Wise or unlearned, man, woman, young or old — Shall soon or late break from the wheels of life 5 Attaining blest Nirvana. Book the Eighth. Whilst Buddha spake these things before the King : The Books say well, my Brothers ! each man's life The outcome of his former living is ; The bygone w^'ongs bring forth sorrows and woes 10 The bygone right breeds bliss. That which ye sow ye reap. See yonder fields ! The sesanum w^as sesanum, the corn Was corn. The Silence and the Darkness knew! So is a man's fate born. 15 He cometh, reaper of the things he sowed, Sesanum, corn, so much cast in past birth ; And so much weed and poison-stuff, which mar Him and the aching earth. If he shall labor rightly, rooting these, 20 And planting w^holesome seedlings where they grew. Fruitful and fair and clean the ground shall be, And rich the harvest due. 6. "NirvAna— is the term denoting the final deliverance of the soul from transmigration. It is, consequently, the last aim of Buddhistic exist- ence, since transmigration is tantamount to a relapse into the evils of the w^orld," At present the best Buddhist scholars incline to the belief that Nirvana does not mean annihilation, but immovable rest. 13. Sesanum. — An annual, herbaceous plant, from the seeds of which an oil is expressed; also, the small flattish seeds of this plant, sometimes used foi- food. 14 SELECTED POEMS. If making none to lack, he throughly purge The lie and lust of self forth from his blood ; Suffering all meekly, rendering for offence Nothing but grace and good : If he shall day by day dwell merciful, 5 Holy and just and kind and true ; and rend Desire from where it clings with bleeding roots, Till love of life have end : He— dying— leaveth as the sum of him A life-count closed, whose ills are dead and quit, 10 Whose good is quick and mighty, far and near, So that fruits follow it. No need hath such to live as ye name life ; That which began in him when he began Is finished : he hath wrought the purpose through 15 Of what did make him Mail. Never shall yearnings torture him, nor sins Stain him, nor ache of earthly joys and woes Invade his safe eternal peace ; nor deaths And lives recur. He goes 20 Unto Nirvana. He is one with Life Yet lives not. He is blest, ceasing to be,. Om, mani padme, om ! the Dewdrop slips Into the shining sea ! 23. " Oni, mani padiiie, oni! is the ' formula of six syllables ' which has acquired much celebrity from the conspicuous part wliich it plays in the religion of the Buddliists. It is the first subject which the Tibetans and Mongols teach their cliildreu, and it is tiie last prayer which is muttered by the dying man. It is looked upon as the essence of all religion and wisdom, and the means of attaining eternal bliss. Some suppose that it means 'O tlie jewel in tiie lotus; ' the jeirel referring to the saint Avalokiteswara him- self, and in the lotus referring to the belief that he was born from a lotus. It probably means 'Salvation (Oni) is the jewel-lotus (mani-padme}.' " 1 THE LIGHT OF ASIA. 15 The First good Level is Rigid Doctrine. Walk In fear of Dharma, shunning all offence ; In heed of Karma, which doth make men's fate ; In lordship over sense. The Second is Right Purpose. Have good-will 5 To all that lives, letting unkindness die And greed and wrath ; so that your lives be made Like soft airs passing by. The Third is Right Discourse. Govern the lips As they were palace-doors, the King within ; 10 Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words Which from that presence win. The Fourth is Right Behavior. Let each act Assoil a fault or help a merit grow : Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads 15 Let love through good deeds show. More is the treasure of the Law than gems ; Sweeter than comb its sweetness ; its delights Delightful past compare. Thereby to live Hear the Five Rules aright : — 20 Kill not— for Pity's sake— and lest ye stay The meanest thing upon its upward way. Give freely and receive, but take from none By greed, or force or fraud, what is his own. 2. Dharma [virtue, duty, law; from clhri, to support] comprehends the revelations, dogmas, and their precepts; and, in a strict sense, cos- mology and cosmography, mythology, metempsychosis, and the theory of salvation." The law and scriptures of Buddhism. 3. "Karma [Skt. karman, act, action, work, fate as the consequence of actsK In Huidoo religion one's acts-considered as determining his lot after death, and in a following existence; the aggregate of merits and demerits of a sentient being, in one of his successive existences. Controls destiny of all sentient beings, not by judicial reward and punishment, but by the re- Know ye not that He relents Ere the sinner well repents ? 30 il PEARLS OF THE FAITH. 31 Terribly His justice burns, Easily His anger turns. Spake our Lord : "If one draw near Unto God — with praise and prayer — Half a cubit, God will go 5 Twenty leagues to meet him so." 91 " Propitious''' is He unto those that show Compassion to His creatures ; praise Him so. " No beast of earth, no fowl that flies with wings," Saith the great Book, " but is a people, too ; 10 From Allah sprang their life, and unto Him They shall return : with such heed what ye do !" There came before our Lord a certain one "Who said, "O Prophet ! as I passed the wood, I heard the voice of youngling doves which cried, 15 While near the nest their pearl-necked mother cooed." " Then in my cloth I tied those fledglings twain, But all the way the mother fluttered nigh ; See ! she hath followed hither !" Spake our Lord : " Open thy knotted cloth, and stand thou by." 20 But when she spied her nestlings, from the palm Down flew the dove, of peril unaf eared So she might succor these. " Seest thou not," Our Lord said, " how the heart of this poor bird ** Grows, by her love, greater than his who rides 25 Full-faced against the spear-blades ? thinkest thou Such fire divine was kindled to be quenched ? I tell ye nay ! Put back upon the bough 32 SELECTED POEMS. " The nest she elaimeth thus. I tell ye nay ! From Allah's self cometh this wondrous love : Yea ! and I swear by Him who sent me here, He is more tender then a nursing dove, " More pitiful to men than she to these. 5 Therefore fear God in whatsoe'er ye deal With the dumb peoples of the wing and hoof. Yours are they ; yet whene'er ye lift the steel " To slay for meat, name first the name of God, Saying ' Bi 'sm 'illah ! God judge thee and me ! 10 God gives thee patience to endure to-day The portion that He hath allotted thee.' "So shall ye eat and sin not ; else the blood Crieth against you." Thus our Prophet spake. And Islam doeth it, naming God's name 15 Before the slaughter, — for that white dove's sake. By those dumb mouths be ye forgiven, Ere ye are heard pleading with Heaven. 30 Al-Hddil! ^^ Jvst LordP'' we magnify Thy righteous Law, ivhich shall the whole world try. 20 God will roll up, w'hen this world's end approacheth, The broad blue spangled hangings of the sky. Even as As-Sigill rolleth up his record, And seals and binds it when a man doth die. 8. This is the origrin of the custom of Muslim hunters and butchers, who pronounce the formula of exctise and pity before slaying any animal. 2.'i. As-Sislll.— Angel of Registration. PEARLS OF THE FAITH. 33 Then the false worshippers, and what they follow, Will to the pit, like "stones of hell," descend ; ' But true believers shall hear Angels say i no-, " This is your day ; be joyous without end." In that hour dust shall lie on many faces, 5 And many faces shall be glad and bright ; Ye who believe, trust and be patient always, Until God judges, for He judges right. Give us to pass before TJiy throne Among the number of Thine own ! 10 34 SELECTED POEMS. IV. With Sa'di* in the Garden; OR, The Book of Love. Being the " Ishk " ^ or Tliird Chapter of the '' Bostdii" ' of the Pe7^sian poet Sa''di, emhodied in a Dialogue held in the Garden of the Taj Mahal,* at Agra.^ Proem. Sweet Friends ! who love the Music of the Sun, And listened — glad and gracious — many an one, While, on a light-strung lyre, I sought to tell Indian Siddartha's wisdom ; . . . and to count each golden bead Of Allah's names of 'Beauty ; . . . 6 — once more come. And listen to the Vina and the Drum ! Come once more with me from our somber skies To hear great Sa'di's tuneful mysteries — 10 " Nightingale of a thousand lays" — for he Will, 'mid the Garden, sing in many a key 1. Sa'di.— A Persian poet. 2. Ishk.— Passion; love. 3. Bostan.— Garden. 4. Taj Malial.— raj, an object of distinguished excellence; Mahal, a pal- ace. "Tomb, monuments, screen, walls, and pillars are covered with mo- saic work, chiefly of flowers and scrolls, with many passages from the Koran. The scriptural texts are in black marble, but the flowers and scrolls are of jasper, carnelian, agate, and other semi-precious stones, with hei'e and there an addition of mother-of-peail. We saw a single flower contain- ing more than thirty pieces of stone, and yet the whole flower was not more than an inch in diameter. Bishop Heber says the builders ' designed like Titans and finished like jewelers.' " 5. Agra.— A city in the British N. W^ Provinces in India. 8. Vina.— Hindu musical instrument of the guitar family. 35 Rare Persian airs. But, tell them first, my Song ! — Lest they do thee, and me, and Sa'di wrong — To come with hearts to gentle thoughts inclined, Since this is only for the wise and kind ; And, of itself, our Garden shuts its gate 5 On him that's hard, cold, uncompassionate ; But opens wide its alleys, green and still, To Sesame of Love and fair Good-will ! Taj Mahal. A passion, and a worship, and a faith Writ fast in alabaster, so that Earth 10 Hath nothing anywhere of mortal toil So fine-wrought, so consummate, so supreme — So, beyond praise. Love's loveliest monument— As what, in Agra, upon Jumna's bank. Shah Jahan builded for his Lady's grave. 15 For Mumtaz-i-Mahal, the " Exalted one" — Queen of her Sultan's heart, and Hindostan — Here by her Lord and Lover laid to sleep. And here, too, sleeps the stately King who planned This splendor for his sorrow — Shah Jahan — 20 Twelve score years back Sultan of India, Ruler august, and sire of Aurangzebe. Queen Arjamand and the Dagger. Mirza. They tell this story of Queen Arjamand : So fair she was, so debonair, so wise. The heart of Shah Jahan slept in her lap : 35 Her mouth issued the King's decrees, her hands Gave provinces away, and great commands. No night but at her feet the Emperor Laid down his cap of lordship and his sword To take soft counsel from her faithful lips. 30 Which many grudged. . . . 14. Jumna.— The principal feeder of the Ganges. 36 SELECTED POEMS. "If we could turn His Majesty," said these, "From Muntaz, that were well wrought for the State, Whose banner is become a Persian shift ! Mashallah ! will naught dull those dazzling eyes ?" And some one whispered : " Best find newer eyes 5 More dazzling, killing passion with its like ; Since one love-chamber have these hearts of men. And she who enters thrusts the other forth. There is that slave-girl, come from Jessulmere, A brown pearl of the Prophet's Paradise, 10 Wondrously fair — as none e'er saw : give word They deck her with the garments of Muntaz, And hang the Queen's pearls round her throat, and bring The Rajpootni into the Queen's own room When she is gone — so may my lord the King 15 Be tenderly beguiled, and Mumtaz scorned." And this the Palace Ladies swore was good. Saheb. Surely, 'twas perilous ? Mirza. Hazrat ! the girl Knew — for they told her— she must die, or gain 20 Life, and long favor, and large wealth in gold. At moment when her veil should drop, and show Full moonlight of her face. To reign, see you. First in that Court, to win the eyes of him Who ruled upon the " Peacock-throne," and stretched 25 4. Mashallali.— " As God wills." [Sha, will ; and Allah.] Expresses wonder or admiration. 9. Jessulmere.— A fortified city of Rajpootaua, capital of a protected state of the same name. 14. llajpoot (Rajput).— A memberof a Hindu race who regard themselves as descendants of the ancient warrior caste— the Aryan race of warriors wlio established themselves on the lofty table-lands of Hindustan some two thousand years before our era. The Rajputs claim a descent from tlie god Rama. " It is at Oudeypore, above every other city in India, that we find the high representatives of tlae chief Rajput tribes, and of purest blood, till it has passed into a proverb that ' a courtier of the court of Oudeypore is the model of bon-ton for all India.' This family (of Oudeypore) not only opposed the MuS'^ulinan invasion, but they preserved their purity of caste at the cost of blood and treasure, by sundering, during all the Mohammedan rule, every form of connection with the imperial famil}^" 19. Hazrat.- A title of hOTior; a gentleman. 2.5. Peacock-throne.—" The fort or citadel of Delhi had formerly about a dozen large buildings in it, and many small ones ; but nearly all" of the latter, and some of the former, were destroyed at the time of the Mutinj', or 37 Hands of command from Balkli to Himalay, Was worth some risk, it seemed, of fierce farrash. Therefore — half-willing, half-constrained — she sate Trembling, upon the silks of Mumtaz' bed, In vestments of the beauteous Queen, her face 5 Wrapped in the golden chuddur. Oh, 'tis known What fell, because a Palace maiden heard — Listening outside the marble jali-work — And told it, word for word, to Arjamand. Dilazdr. Good Mirza ! what befell ? 10 Mirza. The Sultan came Clad in his private dress— white muslin clasped With one great pearl, white cap and jeweled shoes — And, throwing down his scimitar and shawl, Spake with a gentle cmile : " Light of my Life ! 15 Once more I shut the great loud world away And come to reign in this one realm I love, The heart of Mumtaz !" Kose the Rajpootni, All quaking underneath her rich disguise. And bent full lowly to the King of Hind, 20 within a few years after it. The finest of the public ones were preserved, and they are certainly g^reat curiosities. There are two large halls — the Dewan-i-Am and the Dewan-i-Khas. The Dewani-Khas is smaller than the other, and is more like a pavilion than a room, being open on three sides. They say that the ceiling was once composed of gold and silver filigree- work, made by the jewelers of Delhi ; the same room contained the famous Peacock-throne. Tiiis throne was six feet lojig by four feet broad, com- posed of gold inlaid with precious gems. It was surrounded by a gold can- opy supported on twelve pillars of the same material, around the canopy being a fiinge of pearls. On each side of the throne stood two umbrellas, symbols of royalty, formed of crimson velvet richly embroidered with gold thread and pearls, and with handles of solid gold eight feet long, studded with diamonds. The back of the throne was a representation of the ex- panded tail of a peacock, the natural colors of which were imitated by sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and other precious gems. Its value was esti- mated, by a French jeweler who saw it. at $30,000,000 It was carried away by the ereat Persian conqueror, Nadir Shah, when he captured Delhi in 1738. Tlie place where the throne stood is occupied by a block of marble bearing the world-famed inscription, 'Agar furduse barii-i-zamin ast, hamin ast, hamin ast, hamin ast/ (If there be an elysium on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this). 2. Farrash.— Executioner. 0. Chuddur, chuddah.— In India a square piece of cloth of any kind; especially the ample sheet commonly worn as a mantle by women in Bengal. 8. Jali-work.— Pierced screen work, especially in marble or stone, characteristic of Indian house decoration under Moslem influence. 38 . SELECTED POEMS. And kissed his feet ; — then, let her chuddur fall, And — lo ! it was not Muntaz there ! his Queen ! But that strange, lovely, frightened girl, with throat Heaving, eyes gleaming, hands on bosom clasped, Who murmured : " Lord of all the world ! thy slave 5 Waiteth thy will that she may live or die." Galbadan. Doubtless he drew his blade, and slew her there ! Saheb. lie was a man, 'tis writ, of gravity ; Nice in his pride, terrible in his wrath, I shudder, Mirza ! for your slave-maiden. 10 Mlrza. Good Sir ! you do not know how fair she was ! Otherwise wlio had ventured? On his lips Ended even in beginning those dread words Which leaped from royal anger. . . . Allah makes 15 Sometimes a face and form to smite man's soul AVith witchery of subtlest symmetry. And she was such ! . . . Nay ! and she marked The first wrath in the Sultan's countenance 20 Flicker and pass as flame doth pass away When rain falls on the sparkling of a brand : So gently dropped upon his mind the rain Of wonder, pity, will of gentilesse : And, when she sank upon her face, and sobbed, 25 " Lord of the Age ! forgive me ! send me hence Alive ! I was not told how great thou art, How terrible ! how base and bold my deed !" He raised the Rajpoot girl, gazed on her face With softening eyes, and, while her heart beat quick, 30 Spake : " Get thee hence alive ! Fairest thou art Of Allah's works. . . . Yet one thing fairer is than even thou. And sweeter far for me to have and keep, The faith I held and hold to her whose name 35 Thou art not meet to hear ! Begone ! begone !" 39 iSaJieb. Right royal ! and nowise of the Mogul type, As I have read. What next befell that slave, With respite of eye-wink ? Mirza. She glided forth, Seeking escape ; but those that heard the words 5 And saw all done, laid hands on her, and haled The weeping maid to angry Arjamand, Dressed as she was in the Queen's cloth of gold, Wearing the Palace-pearls, ungirt, new-bathed. Painted, and henna-stained, and scented sweet. 10 They told what passed, and how the Sultan spake. She cowering at the proud Sultana's foot. Dilhazdr. Then the Queen stabbed her to the heart — was't not? Straight to the heart ! Wallah ! I would have stabbed ! Mirza. Then the Queen drew the dagger from her waist, 15 A knife of watered steel, hafted with jade, And on the hilt a ruby worth three lackhs, Pigeon-blood color, marvelous, the gift Of Shah Jahan in some soft hour of love — An unmatched stone. And, when they looked to see 20 The keen point pierce the panting satin skin Stripped of its veil — Arjamand stooped and placed The dagger blade beneath her sandal, snapped The bright steel short, and, drawing near to hers That Rajpoot's face, kissed tenderly her mouth, 25 And gravely spake : " Go ! thou hast given me The richest, best, last gift which Earth could give 1. Moguls. — Mongols were called Moguls by the Persians. " The Mongols correspond in almost every respect with the Turanian family. They include Chinese, Indo-Chinese, Tartars of all kinds, Burmese, Lapps, Finns, Es- quimaux Siamese, Tibetans, Turks, and even Magyars. Collectively they are the great Nomadic people of the earth." 10. Henna.— A shrub growing in moist situations throughout the north of Africa, Arabia, Persia, and the E. Indies. The leaves abound in coloring matter, and are very generally used by the women of the East in staining the nails and tips of the fiiiger.s of an orange color. 14. Walla, wallah. —Fellow; man; doer; agent; a civil servant, selected by competitive examination. 16. Hafted with jade,— //a/^ a handle as of a knife or dagger; jade, a mineral of a greenish color, used by natives for weapons. 17. Lackli, lac— The sum of 100,000— usually of rupees. 40 SELECTED POEMS. In comfort of my great Lord's constancy. Take thou this jewel of my dagger, Friend ! — Nowise its point ! — and a Queen's thanks therewith For treason dearly done to Arjamand !" So passed the Rajpoot, rich and scatheless, thence. JSaJieb. Sweeter her memory seems for that one deed Of loftiest clemency than for her face Of "heavenly charm, or for her sovereignties, Or fame or tomb ! How think you, Gulbadan ? LOTUS AND JEWEL. 41 V. Lotus and Jewel. ** A Rajput Nurse." " Whose tomb have they builded, Vittoo ! under this tamarind tree, With its door of the rose-veined marble, and white dome stately to see, Was he holy Brahman, or Yogi, or Chief of the Rajput line, Whose urn rests here by the river, in the shade of the beautiful shrine ?" " May it please you," quoth Vittoo, salaaming, " Protector of all the poor ! 5 It was not for holy Brahman they carved that delicate door ; Nor for Yogi, nor Rajput Rana, built they this gem of our land ; But to tell of a Rajput woman, as long as the stones should stand. "Her name was Moti, the pearl-name; 'twas far in the ancient times ; But her moon-like face and her teeth of pearl are sung of still in our rhymes ; 10 And because she was young, and comely, and of good repute, and had laid A babe in the arms of her husband, the Palace-Nurse she was made: 3. Brahman Priest. Rrahma, one of the three chief gods of Hindu pantheon, especially associated with the function of creation. 3. Yogi A devotee of the Yoga system of philosophy. Yoga, a species of asceticism among the Hindus. 3. Rajput.~A member of a Hindu race who regarded themselves as de- scendants of the ancient warrior caste. They now chiefly occupy Rajpootana. 12. " A Hindu father acknowledges paternity by receiving in his arms his new-born child." 4S SELECTED POEMS. ' ' For the sweet chief -queen of the Kana in Joudhpore city had died, Leaving a motherless infant, the heir to that race of pride ; The heir of the peacock-banner, of the five-colored flag, of the throne "Which traces its record of glory from days when it ruled alone ; " From times when, forth from the sunlight, the first of our kings came down 5 And had the earth for his footstool, and wore the, stars for his crown. As all good Rajputs have told us.; so Moti was proud and true, With the Prince of the land on her bosom, and her own brown baby too. "And the Rajput woman will have it (I know not myself of these things) As the two babes lay on her lap there, her lord's, and the Joudhpore King's ; 10 So loyal was the blood of her body, so fast the faith of her heart, It passed to her new-bora infant, who took of her trust its part. '' He would not suck of the breast-milk till the Prince had drunken his fill ; He would not sleep to the cradle-song till the Prince was lulled and still ; And he lay at night with his small arms clasped round the Rana's child, 15 As if those hands like the rose-leaf could shelter from treason wild. 5. The Rajput dyuasty is said to be descended from the Sun. 10. Joudhpore.— A city in Rajpootana, capital of a protected state of the same name. 15. Kana.— King. LOTUS AND JEWEL. 43 "For treason was wild in the country, and villainous men had sought The life of the heir of the gadi, to the Palace in secret brought ; With bribes to the base, and with knife-thrusts for the faith- ful, they made their way Through the line of the guaixls, and the gateways, to the hall where the women lay. "There Moti, the foster-mother, sat singing the children to rest, 5 Her baby at play on her crossed knees, and the King's son held to her breast ; And the dark slave- maidens round her beat low on the cym- bal's skin Keeping the time of her soft song — when — Saheb ! — there hurried in " A breathless watcher, who whispered, with horror in eyes and face : ' Oh ! Moti ! men come to murder my Lord the Prince in this place ! 10 They have bought the help of the gate-guards, or slaughtered them unawares, Hark ! that is the noise of their tulwars, the clatter upon the stairs ! ' "For one breath she caught her baby from her lap to her heart, and let The King's child sink from her nipple, with lips still clinging and wet. Then tore from the Prince his head-cloth, and the putta of pearls from his waist, 15 And bound the belt on her infant, and the cap on his brows, in haste ; 2. Gadi.- The throne. 8. Saheb, sahib.— Sir; gentleman. 18. Tulwars.— Indian swords. 15. Putta.— Belt. 44 SELECTED POEMS. ' ' And laid her own dear offspring, her flesh and blood on the floor, With the girdle of pearls around him, and the cap that the King's son wore ; While close to her heart, which was breaking, she folded the Kaja's joy, And — even as the murderers lifted the purdah— she fled with his boy. "But there (so they deemed) in his jewels, lay the Chota Rana, the Heir ; 5 'The cow with two calves has escaped us,' cried one, 'it is right and fair She should save her own butcha ; no matter ! the edge of the dagger ends This spark of Lord Raghoba's sunlight ; stab thrice and four times, O friends ! ' *' And the Rajput women will have it (I know not if this can be so) That Moti's son in the putta and golden cap cooed low, 10 When the sharp blades met in his small heart, with never one moan or wince, But died with a babe's light laughter, because he died for his Prince. " Thereby did that Rajpfit mother preserve the line of our Kings." "Oh ! Vittoo," I said, "but they gave her much gold and beautiful things, . 3. Baja, rajah.— A native prince or king. 4. Purdali.— A curtain. 5. Chota Rana.— " Little King." 7. Butcha.— "Little one." 8. Lord Rag^hoba.— A celebrated king of Oude, descended from the Sun. LOTUS AND JEWEL. 45 And garments, and land for her people, and a home in the Palace ! May be She had grown to love that Princeling even more than the child on her knee." " May it please the Presence ! " quoth Vittoo, " it seemeth not so ! They gave The gold and the garments and jewels, as much as the proud- est would have ; But the same night deep in her true heart she buried a knife, and smiled, 5 Saying this : ' I have saved my Rana ! I must go to suckle my child ! ' " 46 SELECTED POEMS. VI. Miscellaneous Poems. She and He. '* She is dead !" they said to him. " Come away ; Kiss her ! and leave her ! — thy love is clay ! " They smoothed her tresses of dark-brown hair ; On her forehead of marble they laid it fair : Over her eyes, which gazed too much, 5 They drew the lids with a gentle touch ; With a tender touch they closed up well The sweet thin lips that had secrets to tell ; About her brows, and her dear, pale face They tied her veil and her marriage-lace ; 10 And drew on her white feet her white silk shoes ; — Which were the whiter no eye could choose ! And over her bosom they crossed her hands ; '' Come away," they said, — " God understands ! " And then there was Silence ;— and nothing there 15 But the Silence — and scents of eglantere. And jasmine, and roses, and rosemary ; For they said, " As a lady should lie, lies she !" And they held their breath as they left the room, With a shudder to glance at its stillness and gloom. 20 But he — who loved her too well to dread The sweet, the stately, the beautiful dead, — MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 47 He lit his lamp, and took the key, And turn'd it ! — alone again — he and she ! He and she ; but she would not speak. Though he kissed, in the old place, the quiet cheek ; He and she ; yet she would not smile, 5 Though he call'd her the name that was fondest erewhile. He and she ; and she did not move To any one passionate whisper of love ! Then he said, " Cold lips ! and breast witjiout breath ! Is there no voice ? — no language of death 10 " Dumb to the ear and still to the sense, But to heart and to soul distinct, — intense ? "See, now,— I listen with soul, not ear— What was the secret of dying. Dear ? " Was it the infinite wonder of all, 15 That you ever could let life's flower fall ? ' ' Or was it a greater marvel to feel The perfect calm o'er the agony steal ? " Was the miracle greatest to find how deep, Beyond all dreams, sank downward that sleep ? 20 " Did life roll backward its record. Dear, And show, as they say it does, past things clear? " And was it the innermost heart of the bliss To find out so what a wisdom love is ? " Oh, perfect Dead ! oh, Dead most dear, 25 I hold the breath of my soul to hear ; 48 SELECTED POEMS. " I listen — as deep as to horrible hell, As high as to heaven !— and you do not tell ! " There must be pleasures in dying, Sweet, To njake you so placid from head to feet ! " I would tell you, Darling, if I were dead, 5 And 'twere your hot tears upon my brow shed. " I would say, though the angel of death had laid His sword on my lips to keep it unsaid. " You should not ask, vainly, with streaming eyes, Which in D6ath's touch was the chiefest surprise ; 10 " The very strangest and suddenest thing Of all the surprises that dying must bring." Ah ! foolish world ! Oh ! most kind Dead ! Though he told me, who will believe it was said ? Who will believe that he heard her say, 15 With the soft rich voice, in the dear old way : — " The utmost w^onder is this, — I hear, And see you, and love you, and kiss you. Dear ; " I can speak, now you listen with soul alone ; If your soul could see, it would all be shown 20 *' What a strange delicious amazement is Death, To be without body and breathe without breath. " I should laugh for joy if you did not cry ; Oh, listen ! love lasts ! — love never will die. " I am only your Angel who was your Bride ; 25 And I know, that though dead, I have never died." ENGLISH CLASSIC SERIES, FOR Classes in English Liiterature, Reading, Grammar, etc. EDITED BY EMINENT ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SCHOLARS, Each Volume contains a Sketch of the Author''s Life, Prefatory and Explanatory Notes, etc., etc. 1 Byron's Prophecy of Dante. (Cantos I. and II.) 2 Milton's li'Allegro, and II Pen- seroso. 3 liOrd Bacon's Essays, Civil and Moral. 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