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The Wheel of the Law

Julia Keightley

(English)

(December 1889)

Signed "J. Campbell Ver Planck," Julia Keightley's own name at the time, before her 1891 marriage to Archibald Keightley. A two-part poem on the Wheel of the Law—the King of Glory's awed homage before it, and its own unchanging roll through the rise and fall of worlds and races—noted as an almost literal transcription from the Buddhist Suttas.

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Short description: Signed "J. Campbell Ver Planck," Julia Keightley's own name at the time, before her 1891 marriage to...

Julia Keightley

The Wheel of the Law

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I.

When the great King of Glory saw The heavenly treasure of The Wheel; The living splendors of the Law Which all its blazing spokes reveal, 

      He stood, as one
      With awe struck dumb;

Then reverently bent his head And, sprinkling it with water, said; "Roll onward; oh, my Lord the Wheel! My Lord! Go forth and overcome."

II.

Roll onward! Worlds shall come and go; Races arise, and so depart; The forces ebb, the forces flow And Thou alone unchanging art. 

      Within thy thrall
      The cycles fall

Till, in the dark and central Space My Lord shall veil his glorious face. "Roll onward; oh, my Lord the Wheel. My Lord! Go forth and conquer all."

J. Campbell Ver Planck.


Footnotes

  1. ↑ See Buddhist Suttas, of which this is an almost literal transcription. – Editor.
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