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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

MARGARET

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