The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.
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BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf.Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. --Ro Amil
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All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.
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'O life of this our Spring! why fades the lotus of the water? Why fade these children of the Spring,born but to smile and fall?
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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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My own mind is my own church.
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"O life of this our Spring! why fades the lotus of the water? Why fade these children of the Spring,born but to smile and fall?
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