(4th Century - 5th Century / Ujjain / India)  What do you think
this poem is about?  The Birth of The War-God (Canto Second) -
The Address To BRahma  While impious Tárak in resistless might
Was troubling heaven and earth with wild affright, To Brahmá's
high abode, by Indra led, The mournful deities for refuge fled.
As when the Day-God's loving beams awake The lotus slumbering on
the silver lake, So Brahmá deigned his glorious face to show,
And poured sweet comfort on their looks of woe. Then nearer came
the suppliant Gods to pay Honour to him whose face turns every
way. They bowed them low before the Lord of Speech, And sought
with truthful words his heart to reach: 'Glory to Thee! before
the world was made, One single form thy Majesty displayed. Next
Thou, to body forth the mystic Three, Didst fill three Persons:
Glory, Lord, to Thee! Unborn and unbegotten! from thy hand The
fruitful seed rained down; at thy command From that small germ
o'er quickening waters thrown All things that move not, all that
move ha