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-                                 ASNEHA
-                                   THE
-                           Legend of the Opal
-
-                        ILLUSTRATIONS AND TEXT BY
-                            CARLO DE FORNARO
-
-                        PUBLISHED BY MARCUS & CO.
-                                JEWELERS
-                            544 FIFTH AVENUE
-                                NEW YORK
-
-                           Copyright, 1902, by
-                            CARLO DE FORNARO
-
-
-    _J’aspire, volupté divine!_
-    _Hymne profond, délicieux!_
-    _Tous les sanglots de ta poitrine,_
-    _Et crois que ton coeur s’illumine_
-    _Des perles que versent tes yeux!_
-
-                     —_C. Baudelaire._
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-    Utter a powerful song to Indra, which will be as sweet as
-    butter and honey.
-
-                                                    —Rig Veda.
-
-Once upon a time, in the land of Kasi, there lived a poor musician, who
-was also a poet and a most imaginative storyteller. He had lost his flute
-in a village brawl, and being too poor to buy a new instrument had to
-content himself in relating wonderful legends concerning the gods, and
-stirring tales about the jungle people.
-
-One morning, feeling the necessity of communing with his spirit in quiet
-and solitude, he wandered into the jungle under a favorite cluster of
-bamboos.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-His soaring imagination was checked in its flight by a song of so
-extraordinary a tune, so novel and strange to his ears that he fancied
-he had been carried up by unknown favor to Indra’s heaven. The heavenly
-singer was only a small bird with feathers like old gold, two eyes green
-as emeralds, and the beak and legs of the same color.
-
-And the Golden Bird spoke to him: “Asneha! thou hast acquired great merit
-by thy devotion to matters spiritual, by thy kindness to animals and to
-human beings. Therefore, if thou wilt cut a reed within these woods they
-shall repeat my songs to thee.
-
-“But have a care, thou must remain pure and not suffer to be deluded by
-the love of woman, and thou shalt conquer the world.”
-
-He cut a flute in haste and pressed his lips to it to utter a song from
-it. And verily the music which flowed from its opening was divine and
-golden beyond description. Sometimes it sang softly as the moonbeam plays
-on a silent lake of emerald, dancing and trembling with so gentle a
-rhythm that only the soul of a poet could hear its melody; at other times
-it swelled its notes to the power of the roaring Maruts smiting against
-the unmovable Himalayas, as the wrath of Kali with the shiver of the cold
-snows from the eternal summits. Again, its melody dripped sweetly as the
-whitest of honey with the scent of a thousand flowers, of innumerable
-forms and shadings the most delicate. It wept, also, a song of despair
-and misery, so sadly, so pitifully, that it caused the tears to surge as
-readily as the Fountain of all the Sorrows.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-So he incised on his flute this motto:
-
-    “Once upon a time the Golden Bird sang to me,
-    Now I shall sing a golden song to the gods.”
-
-He went from village to village, from city to city, playing with the
-generosity of an inspired poet, followed by man, woman, child and beast
-alike, whenever he put his flute to his lips. They offered him their
-homes, their riches, their dearest possessions, but he scorned all,
-accepting only a little rice with spices, partaking of shelter with the
-humblest when the tempest-beaten jungle forbade his sleeping out of doors.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Quickly his fame had spread, and reached the ears of the Maharajah,
-who bade him appear at the palace, to vie with the court musicians,
-who were the most famous in the land. The court musicians, in their
-ignorance, eyed the half-naked poet with a defiant leer, as one by one
-they began playing, while nearby sat the Maharajah with his daughter, the
-fair Mahismati, and the courtiers around, all fairly laden with gems,
-appearing as enormous glistening scarabei.
-
-They sang and drummed, they scratched their fiddles and twanged their
-guitars, they played the harps and clanked the cymbals to the admiring
-assemblage of noblemen, who wondered how this miserable, half-starved
-vagabond dared to compete with his wretched little instrument.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-When the musicians had ended, Asneha got up, announcing the Song of Songs.
-
-It began imperceptibly, but as insinuatingly as the language of a couple
-of loving eyes whispers to another loved pair; so indistinct to the ear
-that it was as the incipient melody in the mind of the composer.
-
-Then it continued, soothing and muffled as the patter of small naked
-feet dancing the nautch on the marble flooring; rattled speedily as an
-incessant cascade of rubies, diamonds, sapphires, pearls and emeralds
-on a basin of gold. Steadily it flowed, like a Song of Desire and
-Voluptuousness, filling the hall with a scarlet inundation of light;
-heavy and numbing as the exhalation of soporific flowers.
-
-But now it ascended to healthier altitudes like a Song of Victory and
-Exultation, direct and concise, in a blast of crystal trumpets, higher,
-slowly, in the manner of the eagle.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-It rang forth agitated and sonorous as a gong, yet farther, solitary,
-inaccessible.
-
-Then as if it had grown in magnitude by the ascent, it roared like
-a planet as it shoots into space to restore the equilibrium of the
-Universe, and suddenly, unexpectedly, in the fashion of the shooting
-star, it stopped short, carrying in its wake the exhausted assemblage of
-listeners to the floor as a mass of inert flesh.
-
-One by one, as do the reeds after the violent gust of wind has blown
-over, they raised themselves, but not quite so erect as before. The
-musicians approached him humbly, and breaking their instruments, threw
-them at his feet, salaaming and promising never to play again from that
-day on.
-
-Then Rajah Nila spoke: “Oh Asneha! Thou art indeed a great musician,
-and thou shalt be rewarded as befits a king; my riches, my kingdom, my
-daughter, are thine for thy choosing!”
-
-“Oh, Rajah!” answered Asneha, “I am only a poor man and a musician by
-divine grace, but I am not a beggar, and have no desire for thy kingly
-gifts and thy fair daughter!”
-
-The astonished Nila replied: “Assuredly thou art richer than am I, for
-thou art freed of all desires! But let me be a beggar for once, and
-entreat thee for another song!”
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-[Illustration: PAVANA]
-
-One day Pavana, the messenger of the gods, appeared to Asneha mounted
-on his white antelope, a flag in one hand, in the other an arrow, with
-a command from Indra to present himself immediately to the gods. So he
-mounted the antelope, and in less time than it takes to think it, he was
-carried to the eastern spur of the great Mount Meru, which is Swargra, in
-the City of Asmaravati, the heaven of Indra. All the gods had assembled
-there. Above all towered the great and mighty Indra, the Ruler of the
-gods and Lord of the Firmament, mounted on his elephant Airavata, at his
-right his dog Surana, and at his left his wife Indrani. Farther to the
-left was Surya, the god of the Sun, on his winged horse Tarkshya. Agni,
-the god of Fire, on a blue ram, and Varuna, the god of Waters, on his
-terrible Makara.
-
-[Illustration: VARUNA
-
-KUVERA]
-
-At Indra’s right was Yama, the god of Death, on a blue buffalo, with his
-twin sisters, the Yamunis, at their feet, the Sarameyas, their faithful
-watchdogs.
-
-On Yama’s right was Kuvera, the god of Wealth, with his sister Kuveri, in
-their aerial car of jeweled lapis-lazuli.
-
-Then Soma, the god of the Moon, on a white antelope, and Mangala, the god
-of War.
-
-Also the goddess of Love, Radha, and all the lesser gods in magnificent
-array, in all their splendor, in all their beauty and power, watching
-silently Asneha.
-
-[Illustration: AGNI]
-
-Indra patted Airavata, and then spoke:
-
-“Oh Asneha! Thou hast conquered the world with thy songs, and thou hast
-boasted to conquer the gods too! Now make thy boast good, or thou shalt
-go into the keeping of Yama!”
-
-Asneha looked around, a little dazed by this gathering of Immortals; he
-then shook his long black hair, as if to conquer timidity, and then began
-his Golden Song.
-
-Pure and exquisite as the breath of woman with teeth like pearls, as
-fragrant as the rose of Cashmere, it sang, now jocund, now sad, as the
-moods of love-sick Radha; plaintively yearning as an appeal to love in
-the stillness of the starless night; joyous and eager as the meeting of
-desirous lips; languishing as the woman’s heart fainting under the first
-kiss of the loved; it redoubled powerful, passionate as the march of the
-conquering male who has subdued. Abruptly it altered the rhythm as if
-awakening in readiness for battle, with the clamor of an army lusting
-for carnage, with the clank of swords, the discordant clash of shields,
-armors and spears, the dull thud of shattered bones and skulls, vehement
-imprecations, deep blasphemies, full of rancor, hatred and vengeance.
-
-[Illustration: YAMA]
-
-Then succeeded a silence, heavy, full of terrible signs, as of a silent
-flapping of wings, of a roaming of untold shadows, blacker than the night.
-
-It repeated the death-song of the jackal and the hyena, with its
-harassing, fiendish chorus, pursuing in a mad dance with strange rhythms,
-the lively reel of the black scavengers on the silent and pale corpses.
-Then it died out, purling and gurgling as life ebbs out of a tortured
-body from a deep and crimson wound.
-
-Pity and compassion returned to the song, gently, caressingly, as if
-nursing multiple wounds, infusing sympathy and life, like the wind, which
-laden with coolness and fragrance, sweeps over an arid and desolate
-valley.
-
-It broke into a chant, strong and overwhelming, and so irresistible that
-it was as a strain of Perfect Joy; persevered tenfold, omnipotent, with
-a note so true, so deep and so infinite that it was like a sip of the
-Amrita, blissful and oblivious.
-
-All the gods encircled Asneha, instinctively, irresistibly, as the cobras
-surround the snake-charmer when he plays to them his captivating melody.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-They stared at him fixedly as if to get the sound from its original
-source, and when he had ended they stood one instant stock-still, dumb,
-overflowing with admiration and ecstasy. Then they all pressed around
-him, speaking and shouting confusedly like ordinary mortals. But a
-hush fell over the assemblage as the great Indra slowly made his way
-to Asneha, and for a while stood absorbed and pensive, looking at the
-musician.
-
-He then spoke with his clear, sonorous voice: “Asneha! Verily thou hast
-made thy daring boast good, therefore thou shalt become immortal too!
-
-“I cannot offer thee what is earthly, for thou canst acquire all earthly
-things with thy song. But I have created a gem which comprises all the
-harmonies, all the melodies of music in color. It is ever changing, ever
-beautiful and imperishable as are your songs. Take it, and delight with
-it the mortals!”
-
-To the kneeling Asneha he extended his palm, where scintillated, luminous
-and irradiating as a perfect song, the Opal.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
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