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Why Jesus Wept
Why Jesus Wept (1904), PDF p. 15
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WHY JES US WE PT
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In vain I sit by Kandy Lake.
The broad verandah slides to mist.
No tropic rapture strikes awake
The grim soul’s candour to insist
The pen reluctant. Beauty’s task
Is but to praise the peace of earth ;
If Horror’s contrast that should ask,
Off from this Paradise of mirth !
Let Kandy Lake, the white soul, mirror
The generalised concept, limn clear
England, a memory clean of error,
A royal reason to be here.
Therefore no reminiscence stirs
My heart of when I lived in Kandy.
Europe’s the focus now ! that blurs
The picture of my Buddhist dandy,
Allan, who broke his wand of flame,
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