The Danish Peace Academy

GANDHI AND NORDIC COUNTRIES

Letter, March 16, 1920

Bombay,

March 16, 1920

More things are wrought by prayer

Than this world dreams of.

Wherefore let thy voice

Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

For what are men better than sheep or goats

That nourish a blind life within the brain,

If knowing God they lift not hands of prayer

Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

For so the whole round earth is every way

Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

Tennyson

My dear child,

The above is my share in your sorrow for today. May it lighten your burden.

With love,

Yours,

Bapu

Source: My Dear Child, page 61; Collected Works, Volume 17, pages 90-91

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