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Rh Veera awoke, and told me all her dream; "Lo, in the night three men have talked with me— Three strange good men who said the kindest words, And said that only those who were released From sin, could find the garden of the Lord. And this release was bought upon a cross By One, a Nazarene, with priceless blood. If He would bear our sins, then we might reach The garden; but we must not touch or eat The tree of life that flourished in the midst." Then I abased my soul, and prayed again, And cast off all the burden of my sins, Tearing my strange ambition from my heart. And Veera, too, embraced the Christian Faith. So we arose, and went upon our way, And journeying eastward, Eden found at last!

The trees were housed with nests, and every one Was like a city of song. The streams too Were voluble; they laughed and gurgled there Like men who, at a banquet, sit and drink And chatter. All the grass was like a robe Of velvet, and there was no need of rain. In dells roofed with green leafage, nature spread Couches meet for a Sybarite. Sweet food The servant trees extended us to eat In their long, branchy arms. Even the sun