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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE NEW BUDDHA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poet's Biography
First Line: The moonbeams, like intangible flowers
Last Line: Night, the only buddha that attains to it.
Subject(s): Buddhism; Future Life; Buddha; Buddhists; Retribution; Eternity; After Life
First Line: The moonbeams, like intangible flowers
Last Line: Night, the only buddha that attains to it.
Subject(s): Buddhism; Future Life; Buddha; Buddhists; Retribution; Eternity; After Life
The moonbeams, like intangible flowers;
The air, the trembling drapery of the priest;
The murmur of the river, a soft chant ...
All are there at the feet of Night,
The white Buddha on the shore of Sleep,
Brooding over a new Nirvanic peace.
The silence of enlightenment, a new ecstasy,
Calls our souls like bees
To suck honey from the lotus of Eternity.
A perfection this, of silence, of peace and light;
Night, the only Buddha that attains to it.
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