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SAW Lord Buddah towering by my gate Saying: "Once more, good youth, I stand and wait." Saying: "I bring you my fair Law of Peace And from your withering passion full release; Release from that white hand that stabbed you so. The road is calling. With the winds you go, Forgetting her imperious disdain&mdash; Quenching all memory in the sun and rain."

"Excellent Lord, I come. But first," I said, "Grand that I bring her these twelve roses red. Yea, twelve flower kisses for her rose-leaf mouth, And then indeed I go in bitter drouth To that far valley where your river flows In Peace, that once I found in every rose."