ON EVIL

 

Dr. K. V. S. MURTI

 

Evil! you haunt ever

In our lives as dire ghost:

You seize every chance and

Strike, make us bleed and die.

Yet you do not seem to

Have a shape of yours, for

We know not how you seem.

But you catch our Crooked,

Who act as your agents;

Make us tremble at them

More than we fear your hand.

We hate your might and curse:

‘May your tribe perish,’ and

We know not when you’ll die.

But I thank you, for you

Drive me worship Mercy.

 

* Speech delivered at Hyderabad on the occasion of Sri L. N. Gupta’s death anniversary.

 

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