Rise, great sun...

...And lift my leaf and mix me with the wave.
Om mani padme hum, the sunrise comes.
The dewdrop slips into the shining sea.

Well, that's what popped into my slightly addled brain when I looked at this photo on the computer. From The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold, I think, which I must have read when I was nobbut a girl.

It was an uncomfortably early train down to Grantham and thence to Nottingham, to start a weeks work at a residential school. Not many positives about it, but very nice to meet up with Cath again.