SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
from Sanskrit and Other Languages
II. From Bengali
IX
Ah how shall I her lovely body express?
Fair things how many Nature in her blended,
Mine own eyes saw ere my lips praise.
Her twin fair feet were lordly leaves of summer,
Her gait vied with the forest’s best.
Upon two golden trees a lion slender,
Thereover the hills of heaven were placed.
And on the hills two lotuses were budding
That stemless kept their gracious hours.
In shape of pearl-drops strung heaven’s stream descended,
Therefore not withered those sweet flowers.
Her teeth pomegranate-seeds on lips of ruby,
The sun and moon on either side,
Her hair eclipse, but coming never nearer
Hid not at all their golden pride.
The cuckoo’s speech, the antelope’s eyes has Radha,
And Love has in her glances thrones –
Upon two lotuses two bees that hover
And sip their honey: these she owns
The spring’s five children. O delicious maiden,
Not the wide worlds her second know,
To Shiva Singha Rupnaraian my music
And lady Lachhima doth show.