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Bubbles of the Foam, by Unknown
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Title: Bubbles of the Foam
Author: Unknown
Translator: F. W. Bain
Release Date: November 20, 2006 [EBook #19874]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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BUBBLES OF THE FOAM
So Life's sad Sunset prizes What Life's gay Dawn despises, And always Winter wise is When Summer is no more: While Love than lightning fleeter Turns all he touches sweeter, To leave it incompleter Behind him, than before.
AMARA
Years, looking forward, all too slow, Yet looking back, too fast, What is your joy, what is your woe, But scented ash that used to glow, A sandalwood of long ago, A camphor of the past?
SULOCHANA
[Illustration]
BUBBLES OF THE FOAM
([Sanskrit])
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
BY
F. W. BAIN
What! Mortal taste Immortal? Earth, kiss Heaven? Confusion elemental!, ah! beware!
SOMADEWA
WITH A FRONTISPIECE
METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON
First Published in 1912
DEDICATED
TO
LADY GLENCONNER
CONTENTS
PAGE I. A SPOILED CHILD