twentieth-and-third

Updated: June 24, 2025

Then fail not to whisper unto your own hearts, 'Lo, we are Çramanas, whose duty it is to remain uncontaminated by the corruptions of this world, even as the Lotos, which suffereth no vileness to cling unto its leaves, though it blossom amid the refuse of the wayside ditch." Then also came to his memory, but with a new and terrible meaning, the words of the Twentieth-and-Third of the Admonitions:

Lafcadio Hearn - Some Chinese Ghosts