Verse for To-day
With futile hands we seek to gain Our inaccessible desire, Diviner summits to attain, With faith that sinks, and feet that tire, But nought shall conquer or control The heavenward hunger of our soul. The end, elusive and afar, Still lures us with its beckoning flight, And all our mortal moments are® A session of the Infinite. How shall we reach the great, unknown Nirvana of thy Lotus-throne? From “To a Suddha Seated On a Lotus.” by Sarojini Naidu, 1878 [Dodd Mead & Co.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 1
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86Verse for To-day Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 1
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