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 FAME’S SUFFICIENCY

“Victory is his on earth or Paradise,

The high heart slain in battle face to face.” Let be your empire and your golden skies;

For him enough that friends and foemen praise And with fame’s rumour in his ears he dies.

MAGNANIMITY

The world teems miracles, breeds grandest things, But R4hu of all most marvellous and great Or the vast Boar on white tusks delicate

Like buds who bears up earth, else chaos rings. Rahu, cleft, trunkless, deathless, passionate,

Leaps on his foemen and can overbear,

A miracle, then, greater miracle, spare. _

MAN INFINITE

Earth is hemmed in with Ocean’s vaster moan; The world of waters flows not infinitely;

A high unwearied traveller, the Sun Maps out the limits of the vaulted sky.

On every creature born a seal is set

With limits budded in, kept separate.

Only man’s soul looks out with luminous eyes

Upon the worlds illimitably wise.