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 To find her in the East, he sailed from West,

Responsive to the power of soul's request.

Resistless forces bade her go fulfill

The part that she, by her own human will

Had planned upon a day, when swayed by love

She would her consort find, on earth, above,

Wherever might he dwell there too would she:

Attachments deep can bind like stern decree.

To learn the past, to Maya-land both turned,

But no faint ray of mem'ry in them burned.

Altho' he murmured in a certain place—

"Familiar 'tis, there's something I would trace."

As Maya chief reborn, men of the soil

Hailed him, and led by him would patient toil

In forest depths, 'mid desert mansions old

And temples drear—their history to unfold.

Within a white stone urn in ancient tomb,

Charred heart and talisman lay in the gloom.

To her he gave the gem,—"Now take thine own,

I pray; henceforth it must be thine alone."

In dancing flame the mortal dust from urn

Was thrown. "A form ascends from what doth burn!"

The natives loud exclaimed, "A princely shade

That into nothingness doth quickly fade."