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The song of Kilvani fairest she	A
In all the land of Savatthi	B
She had one child as sweet and gay	C
And dear to her as the light of day	C
She was so young and he so fair	D
The same bright eyes and the same dark hair	D
To see them by the blossomy way	C
They seemed two children at their play	C
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There came a death dart from the sky	E
Kilvani saw her darling die	E
The glimmering shade his eyes invades	F
Out of his cheek the red bloom fades	F
His warm heart feels the icy chill	G
The round limbs shudder and are still	G
And yet Kilvani held him fast	B
Long after life's last pulse was past	B
As if her kisses could restore	H
The smile gone out forevermore	H
	-
But when she saw her child was dead	B
She scattered ashes on her head	B
And seized the small corpse pale and sweet	B
And rushing wildly through the street	B
She sobbing fell at Buddha's feet	B
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Master all helpful help me now	I
Here at thy feet I humbly bow	I
Have mercy Buddha help me now	I
She groveled on the marble floor	H
And kissed the dead child o'er and o'er	H
And suddenly upon the air	H
There fell the answer to her prayer	H
Bring me to night a lotus tied	B
With thread from a house where none has died	B
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She rose and laughed with thankful joy	J
Sure that the god would save the boy	J
She found a lotus by the stream	K
She plucked it from its noonday dream	K
And then from door to door she fared	B
To ask what house by Death was spared	B
Her heart grew cold to see the eyes	L
Of all dilate with slow surprise	L
Kilvani thou hast lost thy head	B
Nothing can help a child that's dead	B
There stands not by the Ganges' side	B
A house where none hath ever died	B
Thus through the long and weary day	C
From every door she bore away	C
Within her heart and on her arm	M
A heavier load a deeper harm	M
By gates of gold and ivory	H
By wattled huts of poverty	H
The same refrain heard poor Kilvani	I
The living are few the dead are many	I
	-
The evening came so still and fleet	B
And overtook her hurrying feet	B
And heartsick by the sacred fane	I
She fell and prayed the god again	I
She sobbed and beat her bursting breast	B
Ah thou hast mocked me Mightiest	B
Lo I have wandered far and wide	B
There stands no house where none hath died	B
And Buddha answered in a tone	I
Soft as a flute at twilight blown	I
But grand as heaven and strong as death	N
To him who hears with ears of faith	O
Child thou art answered Murmur not	B
Bow and accept the common lot	B
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Kilvani heard with reverence meet	B
And laid her child at Buddha's feet	B

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