Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-04-02

Win balsams and the spears Of lernor
Elsewhere were sewers who went forth 50
And all the jungle laughed with NESTING, wv
And all the thickets rustled with small ~ .
~ lizard, bee, beetle, and creeping tbines '
Pieased at the spring time. n the man.
sprays mango
Tho Sun binds flashed: alone at his prse, =
roiiod tie loud coppersnith; bee eater ba sse
hasing the purple butterflies. beneath eu
striped - uirrels raced. the mynas uertaa =,
picked, A0a
the nine brown sisters chartered in the tho,,
The pied fish tiger hung above the pool =
The cgrcls stalked among the buflaloes
| The kites sailed circles in the golden air.
About the painted temple peacocks aew
! The blue doves cooed from every we'll fs.o.
The VILLAGE drums beat for some mari.
feast:
Al things spoke peace and plenty, and IN.
Prince 'us
saw and rejoiced. But, looking deem hoo.
/ .Ae thorns which grow upon this rose Of life
| low the swart peasant sweated for his vyass
l'oiling for leave TO live; and how he urged
Tho great eyed oxen through the famine hon
fioadiag their velvet TANKS: then marked -
too. NJ
How lizard fed on ant, and snake on him.
| And Kite on both; and how the fish bavt
robbed 'A
The fish tiger Of that which it had seized.
The shrike chasing the bulbul, which did ch...
The ieweled butterflies; till everywhere
Each slew a slayer and in turn was slain.
! Life living upon death. So the fair show
Yelled one vast, savage, grim conspiracy
OF mutual murder, from the worm 10 man
Who himself kills his fellow; seeing which,
The hungry plowman and his laboring kine
Their dewlaps bhstered with the bitter yots
The rage to live which makes all living STRIFE
The Prince siddartha sighed. rs thisn he
said,
''That happy earth they brought me forth 10
seer
How salt with sweat the peasants bread, btr
hard
The oxen's servicel in the brake how fierce
The war Of weak and strong! + Ca air what
plotsl
No refuge cen In water. Go aside
A space, and let r.e muse on what ye shows
lBuddha's interference with the sacrificed
But Buddha softly said,
let him not strike, great King!" and there
with loosed
The victims bonds, none staying him, 50 great
His presence was. Then. craving leave, be
spake
OF life, which all can take but none san give.
Life, which all creatures love and strive to
keen,
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each.
Even 70 the meanest; yea, boon to all
Where pity Is, for pity makes the world
Soft 10 the weak and noble for the strong.
Unto the dumb lips OF his flock he lent
Sad pleading words. showing how man, who
prays
For mercy to the gods, is merciless,
Being as god to those; albeit all life
Is linked and kin, and what we Stay have given
~ - al a. L
Fast trust upon the hands which murder them
Also he spake of what the holy books
Do surely teach. how that at death some sink
To bird aud beast, and these rise up to man
In wanderings Of thespark which growspurged
flame.
So were the sacrifice new sin If so
The fated passage Of a soul he stayed
Nor, spake he, shall one wash his spirit clean
By blood; nor gladden. gods, being good. with
blood;
Nor bride them, being evil; nay, nor lay
Upon tho brow Of innocent bound beasts
One hairs weight Of that answer all must give
For all things done amiss or wrongfully,
Alone, each for himself. reckoning with that
The fixed arithmetic OF the universe,
Which meteth good for good and i'll for ILL.,
Measure for measure, unto deeds words,
thoughts;
Watchful. aware, impiAcable. unmoycd;
Making all futures fruits Of all the pasts.
Thus spake he, breathing words so pitecus
With such high lordliness Of ruth and right,
The priests drew back their garments DER the
hands
Crimsoned with slaughter. and the King came
near,
Standing with clasped palms reverencing
Buddha;
While still our Lord went on. teaching how fair
This earth were il all living things be linked
In friendliness and common use Of foods,
Bloodless and pure; the golden grain, bright
fruits.
sweet herbs which grow for all. the waterswan,
Sufficient drinks and meats Which when
these heard,
The might OF gentleness so conquered them,
The priests themselves scattered their altar
flames
And flung away the steel Of sacrifice;
And through the land next day passed decree
Proclaimed BY criers. and in this wise grayed
On rock and column: THUS the Kings willis
There hath been slaughter for the sacrifice
And Staying for the meat but henceforth none
Shall spill the blood Of life nor taste Of flesh
Seeing that knowledge grows, and life Is one
And mercy eometh TO the mereifuL'
From the night OF Buddha's illuminationSl
In the third watch.
The earth being still. the hellish legions ied'
A soft air breathing from the sinking moon.
Our Lord attained SdmHid-sdmbtiddie he saw
BY light which shines beyond our mortal Ken
The line OF all his lives in all the worlds
Far back and farther back and tarthest YET
Five hundred lives and fifty. Even as one
At rest upon a mountain summit, marks
His path wind up by prccipice and crag,
Past thick-set woods shrunk TO patch' through
hos
Glittering false green; down hollows where be
toiled
Breathless: on dizzy ridges where his feet
Had well nigh slipped; beyond the sunny lawns
The cataract and the cavern and the pool
Backward - those dim fats wherefrom n'
sprang
To reach the blue; thus Buddha did behold
Lies upward steps long linked IRON ie'ss
low
Where breath Is base, to higher slopes anu
higher
the ten great Virtues wait 70 lea'u
Tie climber skyward. Also. Buddha saw
How new life reaps what the old life ana SOW
How where its march breaks of its mafch "
gins;
Holding the gain and answering for the loss'
And how in each life good begets more goo1'
Evil fresh evil; Death but casting up
Debit or credit, whereupon tn account
In merits or dement's stamps itself
BY sure arithmic-where no title drops,
Certain and just, on some new springlng ny
are packed and scored past thousH''
and deeds,
and triumphs. memories ana inai
OF lives foregone.