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THE LIGHT 0F ASIA.
Extracts from Arnold’s sublime poem.
The attention which will, throughout
the Christian world, be awakened by this
latest—and, in; many may esteem it, great-
est—of Edwin Arnold’ s productions, can-
not but vivif intermt in his former noble
oem,a “The ifiht of Asia. ” It may per—
appear t at there is, in the deeper
thought infusing the two works, less con-
flict than mi ht be inferable from their
being fou n exteriorly very dis-
tinct forms of re on; but, independent
of that, no one can the Buddhistic
story without feeling the charm of ex ui-
site tenderness, of universal love for u-
manity and nature, breathing throughout
its lines. A few illustrative passages are
the following:
the seclusion of the palace, to view the 00011"
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So they rode
Into a. land of wells and gardens, where,
All up and down the rich red loam, the steers
Strained their strong shoulders in the creaking
yoke
Dragging the plows; the fat soil rose and rolled
In smooth dark waves Inckfrom the plow; who
drove
Planted both feet upon the leaping share
To make the furrow deep; among the.
The tinklc of the rippling water rang,
And where it ran the glad. earth ’broidered it
With balsams and the spears of lemon grass.
Elsewhere were sewers who went forth to so“;
And all the jungle laughed with nesting songs,
And all the thickets rustled withsmall life
0f lizard, bee, beetle, and creeping things
Pleased at the spring time. In the mango-
sp re
The sun birds flashed; alone at his green forgo
Tailed the loud coppersmith; bee eaters hawked
Chasing the purple butterflies; beneath, *
Striped squirrels raced, the mynas perked and
picked,
The nine brown sisters chattered in the‘thorn,
The pied fish tiger hung above the pool,
The egrets stalked among the buffaloes,
The kites sailed circles in the golden air;
About the painted temple peacocks flew,
The blue doves cooed from every well, far'ofl
The village drums beat for sumo marriage
feast, ,
All things spoke peace and plenty, and the
nce
Saw and rejoiced. But, looking deep, he saw
The thorns which grow upon this rose of life:
How the swart peasant sweated for his wage,
Toiling for leave to live; and how he urged
The great eyed oxen through the flaming hours,
Goading their velvet flanks: then marked he,
too,
How lizard fed on ant, and snake on him,
And kite on both; and how the fish hawk
robbed
The fish tiger of that which it had seized;
The shrike chasing the bulbul, which didchaso
The jeweled butterflies; till everywhere
Each slow a slayer and in turn was slain,
Life living upon death. So the fair show
Veiled one vast, savage, grim conspiracy
Of mutual murder, from the worm to man,
Who himself kills his fellow; seeing which—-
The hungry plowman and his laboring kine,
Their dewlaps blistered with the bitter yoke,
The rage to live which makes all living strife—-
The I’rince Siddartha sighed. “Is this,” he
said,
“That happy earth they brought me forth to
see?
How salt with sweat the peasant’s bread! how
hard
The oxcn’s service! in the brake how fierce
The war of weak and strong! i’ th’ air what
plots!
No refuge c’en in water. Go aside
A space, and let me muse on what ye show.”
[Buddha’s interference with the sacrifice]
But Buddha. softly said,
“Let him not strike, great King!” and there-
with loosed
The v ictim’ 5 bonds, none staying him, so great
His presence was. Then, craving leave, he
spake
0f life, which all can take but nonemn give,
Life, which all creatures love and strive to
keep,
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto-each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon toall
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to 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 slay‘have given
Meek tribute to the milk and wool, and set
Fast trust upon the hands whichmnrderthem.
Also he spake of what the holy books
Q Do surely teach, how that at death some sink
To bird and beast, and these rise up to man
In wanderings of the spark which grows:purged
flame.
So were the sacrifice new sin, if so
The fated passage of a soul he stayed.
Nor, spake he, shall one wash his spiritvclean
By blood; nor gladden gods, being good, with
blood:
Nor bribe them, being evil; nay, nor lay
Upon the brow of innocent bound beasts
One hair’s weight of that answer all mustegive
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 ill for ill,
Measure for measure, unto deeds, words,
thoughts;
\Vatchful, aware, implacable, unmoved;
Making all futures fruits of all the pasts.
Thus spake he, breathing words so piteous
With such high lordliness of ruth and right,
The priests drew back their garments 0 ‘er the
hands
Crimsoned with slaughter, and the King came
nea1
Standing with
Buddha;
While still our Lord went on, teachinghow fair
This earth were if 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 waters wan,
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 passeda decree
Proclaimed by criers, and in this wise graved
On rock and column: “Thus the King‘s Willis—
There hath been slaughter for the sacrifice
And slaying for the meat, but henceforth none
Shall spill the blood of life nor taste of flesh,
Seeing that knowlege grows, and life is one,
And mercy cometh to the merciful."
[From the night of Buddha’s illuminations.)
In the third watch,
The earth being still, the hellish legions fled,
A soft air breathing from the sinking moon,
Our Lord attained Sammambwidh; 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 farthest yet,
Five hundred lives and fifty. Even as one,
At rest upon a mountain summit, marks
His path wind up by precipice and crag,
Past thick-set woods shrunk to a patch; through
clasped palms reverencing
gs
Glittering false green; down hollows where he
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 to those dim- flats wherefrom he
sprang
To reach the blue; thus Buddha did behold
Life s upward steps long linked, from levels
low
W here breath is base, to higher slopes and
higher
Whereon the ten great Virtues wait to lead
The climber Skyward. Also, Buddha saw
How new life reaps what the old life did sow:
How where its march breaks off its march be-
gins;
Holding the gain and answering for the loss;
And how ineach life good begets more good,
Evil fresh evil; Death but casting up
Debit or credit, whereupon th’ account
In merits or demerits stamps itself
By sure arithmic—where no tittle drops—
Certain and just,.on some new springing life:
Wherein are packed and . scored past thoughts
and dads,
Strivings and triumphs, memories and marks
Of lives foregone.
[Prince Siddartha‘s first going abroad, from
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Good unto better, better unto best,
By wordless edict; having none to bid,
None to forbid; for this 18 past all gods
Immutable, unspeakable, supreme,
A Power which builds, unbuilds, and builds
agalns '
Ruling all things accordant to'thc rule
Of virtue, which is beauty,-’truth, and use.
So that all things do well which serve the
Power,
And ill which hinder; nay, the worm does well
Obedient to its kind; the hawk does well
Which carries bleeding quarries to its young;
The dewdrop and the star shine sisterly. '
Globing together in the common work;
A man who lives to die, dies to live well
So if lie-guide his ways by blamelessness
And earnest will to hinder not but help
All things both great and small which suffer
life.
But when the fourth watch came the secret
came
Of Sorrow, which with evil mars the law,
As damp and dross hold back the zfaldsmith‘s
fire.
Then was the Dukha-satya Opened him ,
First of the “Noble Truths;” how Sorrow 13
Shadow to life, moving where life doth move;
Not to be laid aside until one lays»
Living aside, with all its changing states,
Birth, growth, decay, love, hatred, pleasure,
pain.
Being_ and doing. How that none strips of!
These sad delights and pleasant griefs who
lacks
Knowledge to know them snares; but he who
knows
AvidyaéDelusion—sets those snares,
Loves lifemo longer but ensues escape.
The eyes of such a one are wide, he sees
Delusion breeds Sankhara, Tendency
Perverse: Tendency Energy—Vidnnan—
Whereby comes Namarupa, local form
And name and bodiment, bring the man
With senses naked to the sensible, '
A helpless mirror of all shows which pass
Across his heart; and so Vedana grows——
“Sense-Isisfe”—-false' in its gladness, fell in sad-
But solidSS or glad, the Mother of Desire,
Trishna, that thirst which makes the living
drink
Deeper and deeper of the false salt waves
Whereon they float, pleasures, ambitions,
wealth,
Praise, fame, or domination, conquest, love;
Rich meats and robes, and fair abodes, and
pride
Of ancient lines, and lust of days, and strife
To live, and sins that flow from strife, some
sweet.
Some bitter. Thus Life’ 8 thirst quenches itself
With draughts which double thirst, but who is
WISE
Tears from his soul this Trishna, feeds’hissense
No longer on false shows, files his firm mind
To seek not, strive not, wrong not; bearing
meek
All ills which flow from foregone wrongfulneso,
And so constraining passions that they die
Famished; till all the sum of ended life—
The Karmar—all that total of a soul
\Vhich is the things it did, the thoughts it had,
The “Self" it wove—with woof of viewless time.
Crossed on the warp invisible of acts—'
The outcome of him on the Universe,
Grows pure and siuless; either never more
Needing to find a. body and a. place,
Or so informing what fresh fame it takes
In new existence that the new toils prove
Lighter and lighter not to be at all.
Thus “finishing the Path;“.free from Earth‘s
cheats;
Released from all the skandhas of: the flesh;
Broken from ties—from Upadanas—saved
From whirling on the wheel; aroused and sane
As" 15 a man wakened from hateful dreams.
Until—greater than Kings, than Gods more
glad—
'l‘he aching craze to live ends, and life glides—
Lifeless—to nameless quiet, nameless joy,
Blessed NIRVANA—sinless, stirless rest—
That change which never changes!
{Extracts from Buddha’s sermon before the
lug.
Before beginning, and without an end,
As space eternal and as surety sure,
Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good,
Only its laws endure.
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It slaycth and it saveth, nowise moved
Except unto the working out of doom;
Its threads are Love and Life: and Death and
Pain
The shuttles of its loom.
It maketh and unmaketh, mending all;
W'hat it hath wrought is better than hath
been;
Slow grows the splendid pattern that it plans
Its wistful hands between.
This is its work upon the things ye see,
The unseen things are more; men’s hearts
and minds,
The thoughts of peoples and their ways and 3
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Those, too, the great Law binds.
Unseen it helpeth ye with faithful hands, .
Unheard it speakcth stronger than the storm. '
Pity and Love are man‘s because long stress '
Molded blind mass to form.
It will not be contemned of any one;
\Vho thwarts it loses, and who serves it gains;
The hidden good it pays with peace and bliss,
The hidden ill with pains.
It seethcverywhere and marketh all:
Do right—it recompenseth! do one wrong—-
The equal retribution must be made,
Though Drum“ tarry long.
It knows not wrath nor pardon: utter'true
Its measures mete, its, faultless balance
weighs;
Times are as nought, to-morrow it will juilge,
Or after many days.
By this the slayer’s knife did stab himself:
The unjust judge hath lost his own defnnder;
The fallsc tongue dooms its lie; the creeping
thief
And spoiler rob, to render.
Such is the Law which moves to righteousness.
Which none at last can turn aside or stay:
The heart of it is Love, the end of it
Is Peace and Consummation sweet. Obey!
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The Books say well, my Brothers! eaclr man’s
l'fe
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The outcome of his former living is;
The bygone wrongs bring forth sarmwsand
woes,
The bygone right breeds bliss.
That which ye sow ye reap. See’yonder‘fieldsl
The sesamum was sesamum, the corn
\Vas corn. The Silence and thedarknessimewl
So is a man‘s fate born.
He cometh, reaper of the Mmhesowed,
Sesamum, corn, so much cast in past birth;
And so much weed and poison stuff, which mar"
Him and the aching earth. .
If he shall labor rightly, rooting tlnase,
And planting wholesome seedlings-where they
grew,
Fruitful and fair and clean the grounmshau be:
And rich the harvest due.
If he who liveth, learning whence'woe spring I
.Endureth patiently, striving to pay
His utmost debt for ancient evilsdone
In Love and Truth alway;
If making none to lack. he throughly purge
The lie and lust of self forth from his blood;
Suffering all meekly, rendering Ior offense
Nothing but grace and
If he shall day by day dwell merciful,
Holy and just and kind and true; aud'rend
Desire from where it clings with bleedingrroots.
Till love of life have end:
He-dying—leaveth as the sum of him,
A life count closed, whose ills are dead and
quit,
Whose good is quick and mighty,.far-aud near.
So that fruits follow it.
No need hath such to live as ye mme life;
That which began in him whenhe began ' ,
Is finished: he hath wrought the purpose
through
Of what did make him Man. .
Never shall yearnings torture:him,mor~sins
Stain him, nor ache of earthily Mandi woo:
Invade his safe eternal peace; nor deaths
And lives recur. He goes
Unto varuu. '- He is one withlLife '
Yet lives not. He' 13 “auctioning-fro be.
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than our announcement of it.
and character
standard weaves.
shown in great abundance.
for cork, but what cork pays you.
beauty of these TEXTILE ART WORKS into words.
everybody found more to see than they had expected. One day is far too
So of tasteful dressers.
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NORWALK, 001111.. March 24, 1891.
one SPECIAL ”View
NEW Danss FABRICS
Was highly complimented Saturday. The exhibit is so much broader
It seems quite impossible {‘to. translate the
As a consequence
short for a. thorough inspection of either \Vools or Cottons.
COLORS alone are a study, light tints being most favored Tans and
Grays shade themselves in room ways than one would think possible.
Natural tints of the wool are given prominence, but flecks or lines of
brilliant color are used effectively among them
PLAlDS take the widest range, beginning with the tiniest Checks and
running up to the broadest Cross Stripes ; variations innumerable, in color
Our gatherings 1n PLAIN DRESS GOODS should not be lost sight
of in this great flood of novelty. They are complete, embracing all the
A marked feature of this display is the collection of
ROUGH SURFACE FABRICS. These are Fashion’s favorites, and are
Nothing short of sight can convey even an
approximate idea of the fancies which have been brought out in them.
BLACK GOODS—rich, elegant and extensive lines—the finest and
choicest, including complete importations in Henriettas, Serges, Nun’s
Veiling, Batiste, Drap de Alma, etc, etc.
In conclusion we will say there are two values to a purchase, viz., what
it costs and what it is worth. Cork costs eight cents a pound, but if you
are drowning half a mile from shore its value would be not what you pay
Not what you
pay for dress, but what dress pays you. that is the real test.
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What would you like
—-in the way of a corset?
Something that’s easy and
comfortable, with “bones”
that can’t break or kink, and
soft eyelets that won’t rust or
cut the laces-something that
claspsthe figure closely, but
yields to every' movement?
or
Corset. If you find that you
dOn’t, after wearing for two
or three weeks, you have
only to return it to us and
get your money back.
Then you want the Ball’s.
JACKETS.
The spring opens with golden
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promise. Prevailing taste has given.
the artists in clothes great scope. and
toleration in design, and free fancy
has produced much that is original
and unique. Our managers have
been bold in bringing together the
best products of all reputable
makers. The quantities are large,
the variety of sizes full, and not the
slightest fear has restrained them
from the most pronounced styles.
Hence the assemmbly of garments
you are invited to see today, 1nclud-
ing everything from a Baby’s Cloak
to a Matron’s Wrap is eminent for
completeness and unsurpassed for
elegance.
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