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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOTUS; TO M.K. GANDHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poet's Biography
First Line: O mystic lotus, sacred and sublime
Last Line: Coeval with the lords of life and death?
Subject(s): Death; Mysticism; Dead, The
First Line: O mystic lotus, sacred and sublime
Last Line: Coeval with the lords of life and death?
Subject(s): Death; Mysticism; Dead, The
O MYSTIC Lotus, sacred and sublime,
In myriad-petalled grace inviolate,
Supreme o'er transient storms of tragic Fate,
Deep-rooted in the waters of all Time,
What legions loosed from many a far-off clime
Of wild-bee hordes with lips insatiate,
And hungry winds with wings of hope or hate,
Have thronged and pressed round thy miraculous prime
To devastate thy loveliness, to drain
The midmost rapture of thy glorious heart ...
But who could win thy secret, who attain
Thine ageless beauty born of Brahma's breath,
Or pluck thine immortality who art
Coeval with the Lords of Life and Death?
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