Imagine a king-of-the-wheel surrounded by a thousand sons transforming the realm with good deeds adorned by the seven jewels the seven jewels wherever he goes adorned by every wonder until one day his blessings run out like a bird that nests in the rushes or a bug on an ox's neck any of the Six Paths of Karma how much less can common people keep what doesn't last life and death are a whirling torch rebirths as countless as hemp seeds unless you wake up soon you'll waste these human years | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WIFE A-LOST by WILLIAM BARNES AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS by THOMAS HARDY HAWTHORNE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW PHILLIS'S AGE by MATTHEW PRIOR LAUS DEO! by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER THE CHEAT OF CUPID; OR THE UNGENTLE GUEST by ANACREON |