PART I............................. 23 DESERT......................... 23 PART II............................ 26 VOX CLAMANTIS.................. 26 SELF-SORROWS................... 29 EXILE.......................... 30 PART III........................... 32 SOUL-SCORN..................... 32 RESOLVE........................ 33 DESERT-THOUGHTS................ 33 THE GAINS OF TIME.............. 35 INVOCATION..................... 36 DESPAIRS....................... 37 PART IV............................ 38 INDURATION..................... 38 WISDOM’S COUNSEL............... 39 IMPATIENCE..................... 40 WORLD-SORROWS.................. 40 PHILOSOPHIES................... 41 LIES........................... 43 TRUTH-SERVICE AND SELF-SERVICE. 43 WRATHS......................... 45 VISION OF NESCIENCE............ 45 PART V............................. 46 THE DEEPS...................... 46 LOSS........................... 47 PART VI............................ 49 DEATH.......................... 49 PART VII........................... 51 THE MONSOON.................... 51 REPLY.......................... 53 PÆANS MAN................................ 55 LIFE............................... 56 WORLD-SONG......................... 56 Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * PRELUDES INDIA Here from my lonely watch-tower of the East An ancient race outworn I see— With dread, my own dear distant Country, lest The same fate fall on thee. Lo here the iron winter of curst caste Has made men into things that creep; The leprous beggars totter trembling past; The baser sultans sleep. Not for a thousand years has Freedom’s cry The stillness of this horror cleaved, But as of old the hopeless millions die, That yet have never lived. Man has no leisure but to snatch and eat, Who should have been a god on earth; The lean ones cry; the fat ones curse and beat, And wealth but weakens worth. O Heaven, shall man rebelling never take From Fate what she denies, his bliss? Cannot the mind that made the engine make A nobler life than this?