Today's Beautiful Gem: `Old Samurai's Prayer' by Komachi,
translated from the Japanese by Clara Walsh.

"May the Springs purely flow
And sickness cease;
May victory crown our House
And treasure-stores increase;
Evil no longer grow,
And all the world know peace!"

Om s'aantih: Peace! - J. K. Mohana Rao

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