This reverence
Lord Buddha kept to all his schoolmasters,
Albeit beyond their learning taught; in speech
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Upon Earth's lap there lay a pleasant land,
With mountain, wood, and river beautified,
And city-dotted. For the pleasant land
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There was fear and desolation over swarthy Egypt's land,
From the holy city of the sun to hot Syenè's sand;
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Alas! alas! and is it sin to love thee as I love,
To hold thee in this heart of mine, all other thoughts above?
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I do remember well at Kilcrea
The castle, and the friary, and bridge;
And I remember better how I sat
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Ah! not to love is sad and hard,
And yet to love is heavy pain;
But harder, heavier it is,
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If sound or strain in any lay of mine
Not all unwelcome or unworthy be-
If any pleasant measure lead the line,
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Rapt she stood!
Beautiful-but so very,-very still,
That but for some light quivering of her lip,
And the quick tremble of her lifted eye,
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A long blue stain upon a belt of gold,
A rim of earth against the sinking sun,
A shadow that doth fade, and fade, and fade
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A memory of the past hath wondrous power
To gild the present, and to throw a veil
Of rare enchantment o'er the spot it haunts,
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