SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
from Sanskrit and Other Languages
II. From Bengali
XXIII
O happy day that to mine eyes betrayed
Bathing the beautiful maid!
A cloud of beauty was her hair
Dripping with jewels marvellous rare.
Her lifted hands did harshly press
The lingering water from her face,
As tho’ a golden mirror were made clean;
Therewith her robe fell to her lovely feet
And naked breasts revealed their beauties twin
Like golden cups that seemed reversely set;
The lapse her robe’s one bond undid
And naked made what yet lay hid.