On the day when the lotus bloomed, alas, my mind was straying, and I knew it not. My basket was empty and the flower remaine dunheeded Only now and again a sadness fell upon me, and Istarted up from my dream and fell a sweet trace of a strange fragrance in the south wind. I hat vague sweetness made my heart ache with longing and it seemed to me that is was the eager breath of the summer seeking for its completion. I knew not then that it was so near, that it was mine. and that this per fect sweetness had blossomed in the depth of my own heart