A memorial volume of sacred poetry by the late Sir John Bowring. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author, by Lady Bowring |
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Buddhism.
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Buddhism.
Abstraction from all thought, all care, all love,All hatred and all sympathy; can this—
This soul-annihilation—be Heaven's bliss?
This, virtue's highest recompense above,
After life's turbulent troubles? This Divine—
This worthy of the Godhead? Higher far,
Even as infinites to nothings are,
The very feeblest dawnings which enshrine
Our God, our Father! for, though faint and dim
Our visual organs, yet we see in them—
All active as creation—neither rest
Nor weariness, but from the source of might
He pours out ceaseless tides of love and light—
Blessing with busiest energies, and blest!
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