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The Banyan Tree See here, not on the right-hand side, but on the left! How that large banyan-tree was beaming here only yesterday! What a tufted array of boughs it was spreading! How many birds were singing everywhere! And if you remember, we, too, frequently reposed there. And to-day? To-day there is neither that banyan-tree nor that cool shade of the boughs, not even those birds fluttering in glee all around! Did any of us imagine yesterday that today this grand banyan-tree would be uprooted from the soil and this spreading tree heartening the wayfarers no less than the birds, would become merely a reminiscence of the past? My friend! Consider this phenomenon. Ponder upon it somewhat. You feel buoyant at the happiness of to-day, you feel satisfied with the vision of your munificence; you dance in rapture, you are overcome with ecstasy. But my brother! Stop for a moment to muse over this. Is this bliss everlasting? Will this
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