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The Kiss

______________________________________________ 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

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'