Poem From Burma

"So here are you, and here am I,     Where we may thank our gods to be;     Above the earth, beneath the sky,     Naked souls alive and free."

"Our minds are married, but we are too young     For wedlock by the customs of this age     When parent homes pen each in separte cage     And o"

"No stone is set to mark his nations loss,     No stately tomb enshrines his noble breast;     Not een the tribute of a wooden cross     Can m"

"When I was young and had no sense     In far-off Mandalay     I lost my heart to a Burmese girl     As lovely as the day.     Her skin was go"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"