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VED by the Will Supreme to be reborn,—

In high estate a soul sought earthly morn;

Life stirred within a beauteous Maya queen

Of noble deeds, of gracious word and mien.

Beneath the wing of Can, just potentate

O'er Maya-land, of old an empire great,

The Princess Móo knew all the joys of youth,

Led on from day to day by Love and Truth.

Earth's fairest blossoms at her feet were flung;

About her slender form rare pearls were hung.

The zephyr soft was music to her ear;

The tempest wild awaked in her no fear.

Within her being Past and Future slept,

And into guileless mind no phantom crept.

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