Show POETRY IN PAGAN LEGEND ac aab dj to this woman Is made up of a compound of many contradictory things our cur fable or of the creation ot of worn wom vi 11 i more poetical than your chris alaa ii one which forms woman oman out of 0 i ians i ans rib said eald a hindu listen and see it you dont agree with me at the beginning ot of time created the universe and man but when he came to create woman he found that be had exhausted ls laa Is to rilLIS and no solid elements clemen tB remained mused a while then an idea came to him and in order to make the first woman lie he took moonlight and the undulations of the serpent the slenderness slender nesa of reeds and the sot soft movement in the wind tho the tears ot of a the velvet of flower petals the grace ot of a roe the tremor of grasses the vanity of the peacock the softness of the down on a doves breast the hardness of diamonds and the sweetness 0 of honey the cruelty of the tiger and the warmth of fire the cold of snow enow the chatter of a jay and the coo of a dove and out of these things awash trl tri created woman moman |