Imagine a king-of-the-wheel surrounded by a thousand sons transforming the realm with good deeds adorned by the seven jewels the seven jewels wherever he goes adorned by every wonder until one day his blessings run out like a bird that nests in the rushes or a bug on an ox's neck any of the Six Paths of Karma how much less can common people keep what doesn't last life and death are a whirling torch rebirths as countless as hemp seeds unless you wake up soon you'll waste these human years | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RIVER OF LIFE by THOMAS CAMPBELL THE EMPEROR'S BIRD'S-NEST by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW WHEN I BUY PICTURES by MARIANNE MOORE THE BURIAL-MARCH OF THE DUNDEE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN TRIOLET: THOSE VIOLETS BLUE by H. W. BANKS CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 1. TRUE AND CHASTE LOVE by WILLIAM BASSE HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 30 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |