Lover's Gift and Crossing
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The opening
You allowed your kingly power to vanish, Shajahan, but your wish was to make imperishable a tear-drop of love.
Time has no pity for the human heart, he laughs at its sad struggle to remember.
You allured him with beauty, made him captive, and crowned the formless death with fadeless form.
The secret whispered in the hush of night to the ear of your love is wrought in the perpetual silence of stone.
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About this edition
- The words
- The author's text, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Specks on the scanned cover, read as characters by the OCR
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- The copyright line
- The closing line “THE END”
- The printer's line (“Printed by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED”)
- Other material that isn't the author's
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 4 places
- A speck in the scan read as characters, standing alone between lines (5 blocks)