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of his genius. My introduction of Mr. Khabardar is, therefore, somewhat complicated. I cannot introduce him as an Indian poet, for he is not here singing in an Indian language, and if he was, I should unfortunately he none the wiser. I cannot introduce him as an English poet, because he is not one. But I can introduce him—as himself; as one who songs in this book melodiously and until fulness of that level of human life which is the common experience of all humanity, and (which is his special excellence) of that higher level of spiritual realisation which is familiar to Indian experience, and which may the sooner find utterance in English poetry by being voiced in the orient in songs such as these.
JAMES H. COUSINS
