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THE GENESIS OF BUTTERFLIES Victor Hugo _____________________________________ The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings, That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide, With muffled music, murmured far and wide. Ah, the Spring time, when we think of all the lays That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays, Of the fond hearts within a billet bound, Of all the soft silk paper that pens wound, The messages of love that mortals write Filled with intoxication of delight, Written in April and before the May time Shredded and flown, playthings for the wind's playtime, We dream that all white butterflies above, Who seek through clouds or waters souls to love, And leave their lady mistress in despair, To flit to flowers, as kinder and more fair, Are but torn love-letters, that through the skies Flutter, and float, and change to butterflies. ***

______________________________________________ What smouldering senses in death's sick delay Or seizure of malign vicissitude Can rob this body of honour, or denude This soul of wedding-raiment worn to-day? For lo! even now my lady's lips did play With these my lips such consonant interlude As laurelled Orpheus longed for when he wooed The half-drawn hungering face with that last lay. I was a child beneath her touch,--a man When breast to breast we clung, even I and she,-- A spirit when her spirit looked through me,-- A god when all our life-breath met to fan Our life-blood, till love's emulous ardours ran, Fire within fire, desire in deity. _____________________________________ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ___________________________

TIRUKKURAL English Translation and Commentary by Rev. Dr. G. U. Pope, Rev W. H. Drew, Rev. John Lazarus and Mr F. W. Ellis Source Acknowledgements: First published by W.H. Allen, & Co, 1886, Reprinted by The South India Saiva Siddhantha Works Publishing Society, Tinnevelly, Madras, India , 1962, 1982. Etext input & Proof-reading: K. Kalyanasundaram, Lausanne, Switzerland Web & pdf versions: Dr.K. Kalyanasundaram, Lausanne, Switzerland © Project Madurai 2002 __________________________________________________________________________ [couplets] 3rd line is meant for commentary. Tirukkural by Sant Tiruvalluvar, follows: PART I. VIRTUE 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 The Praise of God 1 A, as its first of letters, every speech maintains; The "Primal Deity" is first through all the world's domains. As the letter A is the first of all letters, so the eternal God is first in the world. 2. No fruit have men of all their studied lore, Save they the 'Purely Wise One's...