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Sir Edwin Arnold était un poète anglais et un journaliste connu particulièrement pour avoir écrit La Lumière de l'Asie , livre qui a popularisé le bouddhisme. Il a été honoré de l'ordre de l'Empire des Indes et de l'ordre de l'Étoile d'Inde. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. juin 1832 – 24. mars 1904
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Edwin Arnold: Citations en anglais

“He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all his friends:—
Faithful friends! It lies I know
Pale and white and cold as snow;
And ye say, 'Abdallah’s dead!'
Weeping at the feet and head.
I can see your falling tears,
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this:
I am not the thing you kiss.
Cease your tears and let it lie;
It was mine—it is not I.”

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Edwin Arnold

After Death in Arabia.

“Below the highest sphere four Regents sit
Who rule our world, and under them are zones
Nearer, but high, where saintliest spirits dead
Wait thrice ten thousand years, then live again;
And on Lord Buddha, waiting in that sky,
Came for our sakes the five sure signs of birth
So that the Devas knew the signs, and said
"Buddha will go again to help the World."
"Yea!" spake He, "now I go to help the World.
This last of many times; for birth and death
End hence for me and those who learn my Law.
I will go down among the Sakyas,
Under the southward snows of Himalay,
Where pious people live and a just King."”

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Edwin Arnold livre The Light of Asia

Book The First.
The Light of Asia (1879)

“Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,
The King commanded that there should be built
Three stately houses, one of hewn square beams
With cedar lining, warm for winter days;
One of veined marbles, cool for summer heat;
And one of burned bricks, with blue tiles bedecked,
Pleasant at seed-time, when the champaks bud--
Subha, Suramma, Ramma, were their names.
Delicious gardens round about them bloomed,
Streams wandered wild and musky thickets stretched,
With many a bright pavilion and fair lawn
In midst of which Siddartha strayed at will,
Some new delight provided every hour;
And happy hours he knew, for life was rich,
With youthful blood at quickest; yet still came
The shadows of his meditation back,
As the lake's silver dulls with driving clouds.”

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Edwin Arnold livre The Light of Asia

Book The Second.
The Light of Asia (1879)

“We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life,
A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.”

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Edwin Arnold

The Deva's Song.

“The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do.”

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Edwin Arnold livre The Light of Asia

The Light of Asia (1879)

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