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 to be the vision of India from which we are to get a fresher sense of nature and life and that correspondence of earth and heaven whose perception inspires the poet's ecstasy:

This is the lyric counterpart of the pages in that expound the gospel of the flower, the messenger whose form and fragrance declare that "from the everlasting joy all things have their birth." And in the innocence of beauty, which is transparent to the light of the sun, it helps to dissipate the shadow of Māyā, and to repair the cleavage of illusion.

We are like Sita in Ravana's Golden City, in exile, amid all its worldly pomp and sensation; and then a song, a flower, or a beam of light, comes with a message from the other world, and says the words: "I am come. He has sent me. I am a messenger of the beautiful; the one whose soul is the bliss of love.… He will