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Once upon a hushed red morning	A
In the wondrous years of old	B
When the sun rose like a Rajah	C
Clad in robes of gleaming gold	B
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And upon his land of India	D
Poured the largess of his heart	E
By the Ganges stood a Brahmin	F
Far from all his kind apart	E
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Darkly on that royal dawning	A
Gazed the Brahmin sore distraught	G
And his body lean was shaken	H
With the passion of his thought	G
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Many years with hands uplifted	I
Till they withered in the air	J
I have prayed he cried to Brahma	K
But He heedeth not my prayer	J
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I have prayed and I have fasted	I
Waiting ever for a sign	L
While the world went reeling past me	K
With its women and its wine	L
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Burning suns by day have scorched me	K
Freezing stars with icy spears	M
They have pierced my brain at midnight	N
Through the long and lonely years	M
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I would lose my soul in Brahma	K
Who is soul and life and breath	O
Nought to me are human shadows	P
Flitting by to empty death	O
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I have done with prayer and fasting	A
Lest the years in vain go by	Q
I will search the world for Brahma	K
I will seek him till I die	Q
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Thus the Brahmin spake then swiftly	K
Journeyed up the Ganges stream	K
All around him reeled the riot	R
Of a strange phantasmal dream	K
	-
Rajahs proud he saw returning	A
Prom the wars in regal guise	S
In their turbans blood red rubies	T
Gleaming over gleaming eyes	S
	-
Royal elephants that slowly	K
Marched with trunks in pride upcurled	R
And the spearmen and the banners	U
And the glory of the world	R
	-
And amidst the great processions	V
Captive kings in fetters borne	W
While the cymbals clashed with triumph	X
And the trumpets blared with scorn	W
	-
These he passed with eyes unheeding	A
All their glorious array	Y
For he knew they were but shadows	P
That grim death would sweep away	Y
	-
Never sight of human sorrow	Z
Never show of human pride	R
Edge of sword or smile of woman	H
Turned him from his path aside	R
	-
Yet he stayed by still dim waters	U
On whose breast the lotus blooms	A2
Flower of secrecy and silence	B2
Gleaming midst the temple glooms	B2
	-
All in vain he searched the temples	B2
Where in many a form and guise	B2
In the dim vast halls the idols	B2
Stared with soulless jewelled eyes	B2
	-
I will seek he cried for Brahma	K
Midst the everlasting snows	B2
Where the holy Ganges River	C2
From his awful forehead flows	B2
	-
To the far off peaks he turned him	K
Leaving homes of men behind	R
Driven onward by his yearning	A
As a flame before the wind	R
	-
Hunger gnawed and fear pursued him	K
As he climbed with sobbing breath	O
And above his head unsleeping	A
Hovered dark the vulture Death	O
	-
Ever downward plunged the torrents	B2
In a fierce and foaming flood	R
Roaring through the gloomy gorges	B2
Like a people mad for blood	R
	-
Rose the white moon like a spectre	C2
All with ghostly light aglow	Z
Shining on a lonely Shadow	Z
Midst the Himalayan snow	Z
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Rose the sun in opal glory	K
Still the Shadow lingered there	J
On a ledge above the eagles	B2
In the vast blue void of air	J
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Long the Brahmin stood and gazed on	D2
India lying far below	Z
Like a Maharanee dreaming	A
Evil dreams of war and woe	Z
	-
And he felt his bosom thrilling	A
With a fearful pity then	E2
For the fierce unhappy nations	B2
For the wretched sons of men	E2
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All this woe of old passed by me	K
As a cry upon the wind	R
Brahma is no God of Mercy	K
Unto hapless humankind	R
	-
Or perchance the Fate that rules us	B2
Rules Him too through endless years	B2
And the Ganges Sowing seaward	R
Is the flowing of his tears	B2
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So he spake then upward struggling	A
Came at last unto a plain	F2
Cold and silent white and awful	G2
Far above the hurricane	F2
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And amidst it gleamed the fountain	H
Whence the Holy River flows	B2
And beside the mystic fountain	H
Bloomed a red and lonely Rose	B2
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Never wind its leaves did ruffle	G2
Never breeze dispersed its balm	K
As it bloomed there a still glowing	A
Blossom of Eternal Calm	K
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All the plain was white and silent	R
Blue and silent was the sky	A
And the Brahmin in his anguish	H2
By the Rose lay down to die	A
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Now the end has come he murmured	R
Lone I die amidst the snows	B2
I have sought in vain for Brahma	K
I am Brahma breathed the Rose	B2

Victor James Daley

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