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PRINCESS KALYANI

blinded by their own torch-light, considering that to be the highest! The way is dark and slippery and the mighty trample on the weak. See bow they press forward, laughing like demons at the groans of the down-trodden! This is their courage! This their pleasure! They laugh, triumphant, but they march on to their doom! Behold yonder lies the vast rolling sea! One! Two! Three! and they will plunge headlong into the deep abyss! Alas, for ever! Oh Lord! Have mercy! Oh, that I had the power to open their eyes!

(She closes her eyes and bows her head as if in deep thought. Then with folded hands she again looks up and prays to Saraswati, Goddess of Poetry, Art and Learning.)

Oh Bharati! Deign to favor thy humble devotee, and grant her the Divine gift of expression! Oh, Vinapani, Goddess of Music, inspire me with the melodious strains of thy Vina, that I may reveal the wealth and color of light to all around, filling my song with the spirit of Universal Love, and awakening in the hearts of men the supreme sense of

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