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Faint grew the yellow buds of light         Far flickering beyond the snows,     As leaning o'er the shadowy white         Morn glimmered like a pale primrose.          Within an Indian vale below         A child said "Om" with tender heart,     Watching with loving eyes the glow         In dayshine fade and night depart.          The word which Brahma at his dawn         Outbreathes and endeth at his night;     Whose tide of sound so rolling on         Gives birth to orbs of golden light;          And beauty, wisdom, love, and youth,         By its enchantment, gathered grow     In age-long wandering to the truth,         Through many a cycle's ebb and flow.          And here all lower life was stilled,         The child was lifted to the Wise:     A strange delight his spirit filled,         And Brahm looked from his shining eyes.          --December 15, 1892

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