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To find her in the East, he sailed from West,
Responsive to the power of soul's request.
Resistless forces bade her go fulfill
The part that she, by her own human will
Had planned upon a day, when swayed by love
She would her consort find, on earth, above,
Wherever might he dwell there too would she:
Attachments deep can bind like stern decree.

To learn the past, to Maya-land both turned,
But no faint ray of mem'ry in them burned.
Altho' he murmured in a certain place—
"Familiar 'tis, there's something I would trace."

As Maya chief reborn, men of the soil
Hailed him, and led by him would patient toil
In forest depths, 'mid desert mansions old
And temples drear—their history to unfold.

Within a white stone urn in ancient tomb,
Charred heart and talisman lay in the gloom .
To her he gave the gem,—"Now take thine own,
I pray; henceforth it must be thine alone."

In dancing flame the mortal dust from urn
Was thrown. "A form ascends from what doth burn!"
The natives loud exclaimed, "A princely shade
That into nothingness doth quickly fade."