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Title: Lotus Buds

Author: Amy Carmichael

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LOTUS BUDS

[Illustration]

[Illustration: The Great Rock. (_Page 338._)]

LOTUS BUDS

by

AMY WILSON-CARMICHAEL

Keswick Missionary C.E.Z.M.S.

Author of
"Things As They Are"; "Overweights of Joy";
"The Beginning of a Story," Etc.

With Fifty Half-Tone Illustrations
from Photos Specially Taken for This Work

Morgan and Scott Ld.
12 Paternoster Buildings
London MCMXII

Copyright, Morgan & Scott Ld., 1909

First Edition, _Quarto_ (_Fifty Photogravure
Illustrations_) 2,000 _Nov., 1909_
Edition De Luxe (_Fifty Photogravures on Japon
Vellum_) 250 _Nov., 1909_
Octavo Edition (_Fifty Half-tone Engravings_) 5,250 _July, 1912_

_TO THOSE WHO CARE_

DOHNAVUR, TINNEVELLY DISTRICT,
SOUTH INDIA

_Christmas, 1909._

Each for himself, we live our lives apart,
Heirs of an age that turns us all to stone;
Yet ever Nature, thrust from out the heart,
Comes back to claim her own.

Still we have something left of that fair seed
God gave for birthright; still the sound of tears