Indian pictures and problems . ove this short Lament waswritten: MY BELOVED IS DEAD (the lament of shah jehan) She is dead, for the Mystic All-SeeingHas bidden Her Soul wing its flightTo His Realm; and the Sun of my BeingIs shrouded in infinite INDIAN PICTURES AND PROBLEMS What are Empery, Riches, or Pleasure,In a world whence Her Spirit has fled ?What is life, when bereft of its Treasure,Its Love ? . . My Beloved is dead. Ill All Nations shall come, as of Duty,To worship the path that She trod;To gaze on the Shrine of Her rests in the Garden of God. IV I have pillowed Thy
Indian pictures and problems . ove this short Lament waswritten: MY BELOVED IS DEAD (the lament of shah jehan) She is dead, for the Mystic All-SeeingHas bidden Her Soul wing its flightTo His Realm; and the Sun of my BeingIs shrouded in infinite INDIAN PICTURES AND PROBLEMS What are Empery, Riches, or Pleasure,In a world whence Her Spirit has fled ?What is life, when bereft of its Treasure,Its Love ? . . My Beloved is dead. Ill All Nations shall come, as of Duty,To worship the path that She trod;To gaze on the Shrine of Her rests in the Garden of God. IV I have pillowed Thy tomb in the ThundersOf Heaven, mine Arjamand, Sweet:And Earth has unbosomed Her WondersTo spread them abroad at Thy Feet. So, sleep, loving Heart, for to-morrowSerafil his trumpet shall Souls that have slumbered in sorrowShall break from the desolate ground. VI Then arise through the Domes of Thy Prison,Outsoar the dominion of Fate;By the path where Loves incense has risenThou shalt meet me at last, in the Gate. 56. VII PUBLIC SCHOOL LIFE The Eton of the East. Thus spoke Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, of the College which was founded in memory of Lord Mayo for the nobles of India in the year 1875. And, in truth, one has to see this wonderful institution in order to believe that the spirit of public school education can thrive at such a distance from the land of its birth, among peoples to whom its aims had hitherto been entirely foreign, and to whom its methods must, at the outset, have been absolutely repugnant. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity —strange maxims to inculcate among the autocratic rulers of Native States, and yet that product of our English public schools, the just and upright gentleman, has left his mark upon the receptive native mind, which does not now hesitate to adopt our machinery in the belief that it will achieve for India a similar result. Thus it is that in the Bombay Presidency we find the Rajkot College, in the Punjab the Aitcheson College, an
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