The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death & Destiny

The Broken Wing: Songs of Love, Death and the Spring, including "The Gift of India" (first read in public in 1915) .

IN the radiant and far-off yesterdays of our history it was the sacred duty of Indian womanhood to kindle and sustain the hearth-fires, the beacon-fires, and the altar-fires of the nation.
The Indian woman of to-day is once more awake and profoundly alive to her splendid destiny as the guardian and interpreter of the Triune Vision of national life - the Vision of Love, the Vision of Faith, the Vision of Patriotism.
Her renascent consciousness is everywhere striving for earnest expression in song or speech, service or self-sacrifice, that shall prove an offering not unworthy of the Great Mother in the eyes of the world that honor her.
Poignantly aware of the poverty of my gift, I still venture to make my offering with joined palms up- lifted in a Salutation of Song.
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