They tremble with the secrets only Buddha could have known.

She cometh in the twilight with the tamarinds and tea;

She kneeleth near to serve me in the sweet obscurity.

She sayeth not a single word, but ever I am blest,

And I fall asleep caressing her, the little Rose of Rest.


THE SYMBOLS

The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down,

The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown;