ToxicBeagle
Andy
Professor Higins
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2 cups patience
1 heartful of love
2 handfuls of generosity
Dash of laughter
2 cups loyalty
1 cup understanding
Mix all ingredients well. Sprinkle generously over a
lifetime and serve everyone you meet.
then soft and shy with love;
a while they rested on me motionless,
then slowly turned away.
Her pupils widening behind long lashes
told of the admiration that she felt.
My heart, poor thing without defense,
was captured, cut up, swallowed,and now is lost for aye.
- Bhavabhuti
When I sent you my melons, you cried out with scorn,
They ought to be heavy and wrinkled and yellow;
When I offered myself, whom those graces adorn,
You flouted, and called me an ugly old fellow.
- from The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
(New York:Parke, Austin, & Lipscomb, 1917)