ROMAIN ROLLAND GREETS INDIA

"To My Friends of India"

"Asia and Europe form parts of the same vessel, of which the prow is Europe and the watch-chamber India, the Empress of Thought, with eyes innumerable. Glory to thee, mine eyes! Thou art mine and my soul is thine. We are but one and the same being."

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The past

As clear as polished glass Appears,

While dark as lacquer

Seem the coming years;

Yet, mirrored in the past,

The eye may see

The faces of the centuries to be.

—From the Chinese.

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