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THE KASÎDAH IX — • — Wend now thy way with brow serene, fear not thy humble tale to tell:— The whispers of the Desert-wind; the tinkling of the camel’s bell. שׁלם

THE KASÎDAH IX — • — The shatter’d bowl shall know repair; the riven lute shall sound once more; But who shall mend the clay of man, the stolen breath to man restore? The shiver’d clock again shall strike; the broken reed shall pipe again: But we, we die, and Death is one, the doom … Read more

THE KASÎDAH IX — • — Perchance the law some Giver hath: Let be! let be! what canst thou know? A myriad races came and went; this Sphinx hath seen them come and go. Haply the Law that rules the world allows to man the widest range; And haply Fate’s a Theist-word, subject to human … Read more

THE KASÎDAH IX — • — Survey thy kind as One whose wants in the great Human Whole unite*; The Homo rising high from earth to seek the Heav’ens of Life-in-Light; And hold Humanity one man, whose universal agony Still strains and strives to gain the goal, where agonies shall cease to be. Believe in … Read more

THE KASÎDAH IX — • — On Thought itself feed not thy thought; nor turn from Sun and Light to gaze, At darkling cloisters paved with tombs, where rot the bones of bygone days: “Eat not thy heart,” the Sages said; “nor mourn the Past, the buried Past;” Do what thou dost, be strong, be … Read more