# The Wayside Piper

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- Published: 2015-10-05T19:13:11+00:00
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**Description: **

** Author ** Srinivasa Rangaswami
 ** Pages **82 ** Year of Publication ** 2001 **
Price ** H 120 F 80 ** ISBN ** 81-7595-834-0 | 81-7595-835-9 **_ About the Author_**
Born 20th February 1924. Holds a Masters Degree in English Language and Literature
from the University of Madras. Has been writing poems in English since boyhood. 
Deeply interested in Indian Music and Tamil Classics. **_ Teaser _** Life

It’s ever a groping
 for a meaning…

the tapestry of life
 is ever weaving, unfolding newer and ever newer patterns, 
changing all the time. Only the Master Weaver knows the grand design, the ultimate
whole, unrevealed to the human eye.

The loom does not stop
 it’s ever weaving. . . **_ Table of Contents _** Thou art
all 13 The one thing needful 15 I cannot ask for more 17 The Just Scheme 19 Life
21 Nothing in Vain 22 Chance Visiting 24 At the homing hour 25 The Adolescent Bride
26 At the parting hour 27 With you beside me no longer 28 The Enigma 31 Relationships
34 How beautiful are the plains 35 On the sand dunes 36 To the Muses 37 Evening 
by the riverside 39 A dream 40 O limpid brook 42 The Bombay monsoon is like my heart
43 Paper bits, paper bits 45 The thawing dew 46 The ember never dies. 47 A Krishna
for each gopi 49 ‘The other woman’ 50 Who else but you! 51 The real ailment 52 Would
they be right now? 53 The wayside piper 54 I ride on pinions of winged horses 55
Young I am 56 A windless heath 58 Awaiting thy composing touch 63 The caravan moves
on 64 As songs come to me 66 Would you the promise keep? 67 This too must pass 69
New wine in old bottles 70 Innocent as a new born babe 72 The Kursi syndrome 73 
Muse in chains 75 A writers requiem 76 The Internet 78 A sheaf of haiku 79