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Follow the pitiful inventory of insignificances of the forlorn being he describes with a pathetic humor more likely to bring a sigh than a smile, and then mark the grand hyperbole of the last two lines. The passage is from the poem called "Destiny": "Alas! that one is born in blight, Victim of perpetual slight: When thou lookest on his face, Thy heart saith 'Brother, go thy ways!
Piety which is dependent on action that proceedeth not from the desire of fruit, is, in case of such men Yoga itself. "Ashtaka said, 'O king, thou lookest like a young man; thou art handsome and decked with a celestial garland. Thy splendour is great! Whence dost thou come and where dost thou go? Whose messenger art thou? Art thou going down into the Earth?
It opened at her command, and the steward Dryfesdale entered, and stood before her with a gloomy and perturbed expression on his brow. "What has chanced, Dryfesdale, that thou lookest thus?" said his mistress "Have there been evil tidings of my son, or of my grandchildren?"
Tell us now, we pray thee, what land is this? And who art thou who lookest so like a god?" "Friends and guests, for such indeed you must be," answered the radiant youth, "think never again of sailing upon the wine-faced sea, but draw now your vessel high up on the beach.
'If thou couldst perfectly annihilate thyself and empty thyself of all created love, then should I be constrained to flow into thee with greater abundance of grace. 'When thou lookest unto the creature the sight of the Creator is withdrawn from thee. 'Learn in all things to overcome thyself for the love of thy Creator....
"Mercy, O mighty Sakr-el-Bahr, as thou lookest for mercy!" "Unsay thy words, thou offal. Pronounce thyself a liar and a dog." "I do unsay them. I have foully lied. Thy wealth is the reward sent thee by Allah for thy glorious victories over the unbelieving." "Put out thine offending tongue," said Sakr-el-Bahr, "and cleanse it in the dust. Put it forth, I say."
And then at first he looked upon me, And saide thus: "What man art thou?" quoth he; "Thou lookest as thou wouldest find a hare, For over upon the ground I see thee stare. Approach more near, and looke merrily! Now 'ware you, sirs, and let this man have space. He in the waist is shaped as well as I; This were a puppet in an arm to embrace For any woman, small and fair of face.
Another visitor was announced, and Geoffrey of Coutances drew near. "Thou art resigned, my Wilfred?" "I am, by God's grace." "Yet thou lookest feeble and ill. Drink this tonic; it will give thee strength to play the man tomorrow." He emptied the contents of a phial into a small cup of water. Wilfred drank it up. "And now, my son, hast thou any message to leave behind thee?"
Thou lookest down from thy door the golden, Nor batest thy wide-shining mirth, As the ramparts fall, and the roof-trees olden Lie smouldering low on the burning earth. When flitteth the half-dark night of summer From the face of the murder great and grim, 'Tis thou thyself and no new-comer Shines golden-bright on the deed undim. Art thou our friend, O Day-dawn's Lover?
Alone thou crushest numerous cars and elephants and foot-soldiers and steeds, like the fearless lion of terrible might crushing herds of deer in the forest. Making the welkin and the Earth resound with the loud clatter of thy car-wheels thou lookest resplendent, O king, like a crop-destroying autumnal cloud of loud roars. Thus addressed, Pandya answered, "So be it."
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