full efflorescence, and the dedication of this ardour and beauty and love to the Sun. Aren't children— in very truth- Flowers in God's Garden of New Consciousness? - It was Kavimani who greeted Al. Walliappa's 1954 volume with this warm benediction: May, Valliappa, magician — laureate thrive evermore, enabling children to read and enjoy his songs morn and eve everyday! And R.P. Sethu Pilial, in his Foreword, lauded Valliappa for his uncanny evocation of the values and verities in apt and mellifluous everyday language. Introducing the Second Series in 1961, Mu. Varadarajanar made particular reference to the story-poems and the humorous verse, for these too insinuate their lessons in human deportment. For example Sinnasamy, as he walked along the street, ate a plantain, and cast the skin on the road. He fared forward awhile, and on his brisk return walk, stepped on the soft skin and fell tumbling down. Again, there is the dialogue between a Greek King and a Vedantin. The ambitious King plans to overrun Egypt, Persia and all other lands; and back at home at last, he would build a small house in a garden, and live contentedly there. Thus, then, xix
