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THE

DESCENT OF THE SUN

A CYCLE OF BIRTH

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
by

F.W. BAIN

SIXTH EDITION

METHUEN & Co. LTD.

36 Essex Street W.C.

LONDON

1914

(Vol II. in Bain's Indian Stories)

[1903]

NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION
Scanned at sacred-texts.com, March 2005. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1922. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.

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(The illusion of a waking dream.)

Like a Digit of the Moon
 In the Shadow of the Earth
Spirit undergoeth Swoon
 In the Vestibule of Birth:
Dreameth transitory Trouble,
 Weareth Hues of Heaven, hurled
Hither, thither, as a Bubble
 On the Ocean of the World.

'and in a dream I saw a lotus fallen from heaven'

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Originally Published by Messrs. James Parker &Co.

1903

Second Edition

1903

Third Edition

1906

Fourth Edition

1909

First Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

June 1910

Fifth Edition

February 1911

Sixth Edition

1914

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DEDICATED

TO

MARGARET


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