“Gently waving my sleeve, I am not taking away a single cloud.”
“Quietly I am leaving, just as quietly as I came.”
“Even crickets are now silent for me, for Cambridge this evening is silent.”
“Yet now I cannot sing out loud; peace is my farewell music.”
“With the punt laden with starlight, and sing out loud in its radiance.”
“To seek a dream? Go punting with a long pole, upstream to where green grass is greener.”
“Where rainbow-like dreams settle.”
“That pool in the shade of elm trees holds not clear spring water, but a rainbow crumpled in the midst of duckweeds.”
“I am willing to be such a waterweed in the gentle flow of the River Cam.”
“The green tape grass rooted in the soft mud sways leisurely in the water.”
“Their glittering reflections on the shimmering river keep undulating in my heart.”
“The golden willows by the riverside are young brides in the setting sun.”
“Softly I am leaving, just as softly as I came; I softly wave goodbye to the clouds in the western sky.”
“All the heathen are filled with admiration at the holiness of the law of God, and express the greatest shame at having lived so long in ignorance of the true God.”
“Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.”
“After all had been baptised, I order that the temples of the false Gods be pulled down and idols broken.”
“The most perverse people in the world... they never tell the truth, but think of nothing but how to tell subtle lies and to deceive the simple and ignorant people.”
“We have today removed more than five hundred [idols] with the help of the [people] and our own axes.”
“If it were not for the Brahmins, we should have all the heathens embracing our faith.”
“According to my experience the only effective way to spread religion in India is for the King to proclaim by means of an edict to all his officials in India that he shall put trust only in those who will exert themselves to extend the reign of religion by every means in their power.”