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Remote from reality, and with her eyes turned away from the shadows of the cave, Art reveals her own perfection, and the wondering crowd that watches the opening of the marvellous, many-petalled rose fancies that it is its own history that is being told to it, its own spirit that is finding expression in a new form. But it is not so.
This is Emma-O, Lord of Shadows, Judge of Souls, King of the Dead. Of any man having a terrible countenance the Japanese are wont to say, 'His face is the face of Emma. At his right hand white Jizo-Sama stands upon a many-petalled rosy lotus.
Deb regarded with shining eyes a pale blue morning-glory with a little cap of white. "This is Ruth I love her! The dark one is Hagar she was dark, you know and those two are Rachel and Leah." "Ol' Miss Babylon!" said Miranda succinctly, and put forth a many-petalled red lady. "Babylon, Babylon, Red an' sinnin' Babylon, Wash her han's in Jordan flood, Still she's sinnin' Babylon!"
The plant is so common it does not really call for a description, and if you know it you can skip the following: Growing low on the ground, sometimes with leaves lying flat on the surface, the dandelion sends up a hollow, leafless stem crowned with a bright-yellow, many-petalled flower about the size of a silver fifty-cent piece. The seed head is a round ball of white down.
Through the many-paned, leaded lights of the eastern bay, the sunshine misty, full of dancing notes streamed in obliquely, bringing into quaint prominence of light and shadow a very miscellaneous collection of objects. A marble Buddha, benign of aspect, his right hand raised in blessing, seated, cross-legged upon the many-petalled lotus.
It was in the Park he saw the fashionable procuress driving she who would not allow him to pay even for champagne in her house; it was in the Park he met the little actress who looked so beseechingly in his face; it was in the Park he met fashionable ladies who asked him to dinner and took him to the theatre; it was in the Park he had found life and fortune, and, saturated with happiness, with health, tingling with consciousness of his happiness, Mike passed among the various crowd, which in its listlessness seemed to balance and air itself like a many-petalled flower.
The windows blush with fresh bouquets, Cut with the May-dew on their lips; The radish all its bloom displays, Pink as Aurora's finger-tips. Nor less the flood of light that showers On beauty's changed corolla-shades, The walks are gay as bridal bowers With rows of many-petalled maids.
The windows blush with fresh bouquets, Cut with the May-dew on their lips; The radish all its bloom displays, Pink as Aurora's finger-tips. Nor less the flood of light that showers On beauty's changed corolla-shades, The walks are gay as bridal bowers With rows of many-petalled maids.
At the far end of the room, under a gilded canopy of intricate wood-carving, stood upon his pedestal of many-petalled lotus a great statue of Amida Buddha in the yogi attitude of contemplation, and at intervals against the other walls other smaller images stood or sat: Buddha, in many incarnations; Kwannon, goddess of mercy; Jizo Bosatzu Hotei, pot-bellied, god of contentment; Jingo-Kano, god of war.
At one of these photographs she looked twice or thrice as she darned, and smiled friendlily. "I'd like to know where Lee is just this minute," she said, half-aloud. If you had been privileged to view the photograph thus flattered, you would have thought at the first glance that you saw the picture of a many-petalled white flower, blown through the air by a storm.
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