why fades the lotus of the water?

"I generally go into the Lotus," Philip lied.

" "The Lotus is too far up town for us fellows," Bridges remarked.

And suddenly upon the air There fell the answer to her prayer: "Bring me to-night a lotus tied With thread from a house where none has died.

She found a lotus by the stream; She plucked it from its noonday dream.

I entered it yesterday, and found a 'buddha' coming out of the lotus, looking very freshly gilt and well cared for.

The room in question was small, gloomy, and uncomfortable, but so shaded and sequestered, that, lulled by its drowsy glimmer, for its inmates, as for the lotus-eaters, "it was always afternoon.

Yes.... Ai, ai, Raoul habiby, if but thou couldst see herthe lotus bloom opening at dawnthe palm tree in a land of streams " "Talk French!"

SEE Keep, Oliver D. Lotus and chrysanthemum.

The Black lotus.

SEE Keep, Oliver D. Lotus and chrysanthemum.

By Carl Lotus Becker, revisions & additions by Frederic L. Duncalf. 1946 revision.

Like the lotus-leaf that is never drenched by water, the souls of men capable of distinguishing between the ephemeral and the everlasting, of men devoted to the pursuit of the eternal, conversant with the scriptures and purified by knowledge, can never be moved by affection.

Kâüsagga) posture, and [R.]ishabha, Nemi, and Mahâvira on the padmâsana or lotus throne.

Purushadattâ); (10) Charama and Kâ['s]yapî. VI. Padmaprabha: (1) Uvarîmagraiveka; (2) Kau['s]ambî; (3) ['S]rîdhara by Susîmâ; (4) red (rakta); (5) a lotus budpadma, abja, or kamala; (6) 250 poles; (7) 3,000,000 pûrva years; (8) the Chhatrâ (Anethum sowa?); (9) Kusuma and ['S]yâmâ (Dig.

The lotus was the sacred plant of the Brahminical rites of India, and was considered as the symbol of their elemental trinity,earth, water, and air,because, as an aquatic plant, it derived its nutriment from all of these elements combined, its roots being planted in the earth, its stem rising through the water, and its leaves exposed to the air.

The Egyptians, who borrowed a large portion of their religious rites from the East, adopted the lotus, which was also indigenous to their country, as a mystical plant, and made it the symbol of their initiation, or the birth into celestial light.

Hence, as Champollion observes, they often on their monuments represented the god Phre, or the sun, as borne within the expanded calyx of the lotus.

The lotus bears a flower similar to that of the poppy, while its large, tongue-shaped leaves float upon the surface of the water.

As the Egyptians had remarked that the plant expands when the sun rises, and closes when it sets, they adopted it as a symbol of the sun; and as that luminary was the principal object of the popular worship, the lotus became in all their sacred rites a consecrated and mystical plant.

The myrtle performed the same office of symbolism in the Mysteries of Greece as the lotus did in Egypt, or the mistletoe among the Druids.

In this view, Freemasonry is to us now in the place of the ancient initiations, and the acacia is substituted for the lotus, the erica, the ivy, the mistletoe, and the myrtle.

He descanted upon the power of the Emperor Lotus, recounted his complaints, and warned the Briton, kindly and in a private capacity, of the danger of his situation, a danger so much the greater in that he and his people would meet with the less consideration, seeing that they kept up the religion of their Pagan forefathers.

In this Lotus land there is no must of any kind for the alien, and the only whistles I hear belong to the fierce little tugs that buzz around in the harbor, in and out among the white sails of the fishing fleet like big black beetles in a field of lilies.

There were opal-eyed fish with shaded pink scales, served whole; soft brown eels split up the back and laid on a bed of green moss; soups, thin and thick; lotus root and mountain lily, and raw fish.