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1894 with a Poem written on Sappho in 1936 or
1937. In the latter the style is quite spontaneous
and free from any suggestion of artifice.

" Thy voice winged with thy heart's desire—
A meteor in its flight ;
Thy sighs and moans are songs of fire—
All melody and light!

I'd fain believe, 'twas thine to see,
Before thy soul took flight,
Some sign of love's eternity
Foreshadowed in love's light."
This was suggested by a likeness of Sappho's
head (after Alrna Tadema) in his library, and
in the last four lines Nizamat Jung reads his
own spiritual meaning of love into Sappho's
passion. Thus he progressed from the formal to
the spiritual, from the unreal to the real, from
fancy's dreams to the deeper realities of life.
In Myth and Truth and some other poems he
boldly avows his later creed :
" Forsaken lie the Muses' bowers,
Their harps with broken strings.
No longer rise in fountain-showers
The Heliconian springs."
I must mention another phase of Nizamat
Jung's dreaming, in which his love of Nature is
spiritualised. Natural objects carry his mind
back to the source of all things. He is a lover