A Draught of the Blue, together with An Essence of the Dusk

by F. W. Bain

I. [Sky-Crystal]
II. [Sprung from the Mud]
III. [Purusha and Prakriti]
IV. [Bubbles]
V. [A Painted Lady]
VI. [Shadows]
VII. [Twilight]
VIII. [Quintessence]
IX. [Echoes and Regrets]

[EPILOGUE—THE BREAK OF A HEART]

Note.—The words below the Vignette may be thus translated:

Earth, the Root, and Heaven, the Hue;
Marsh of Mire, and Flower of Blue;

Prologue

A Dead Lotus

A Dead Lotus

I

To the pitchy dark of that awful wood,[[1]] where plunging Ganges lost her way through a night of a thousand years: when the lonely Moon turned ashy pale, mocked by a million moons that danced in the hollows of the rushing waves: we bow.