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SRI AUROBINDO

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from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Songs of Bidyapati

VIII

Alternate Version

Childhood is flown, youth arrived.

The swift, light spirit in her feet that lived

Has fled to its new home in her eyes.

Yet are Love’s glorious envoys two

Seeing her eyes her errands do.

Now every other moment flies

Her hand to seize her raiment’s border

And to rebuke its sweet disorder.

She clothèd now in bashfulness

Her lovely laughter must suppress.

All her musical words she speaks

With bent head and shamèd cheeks.

Her heavy hips usurped the pride

Have, was once to her waist allied.

And she her faltering steps sustained

Walks clinging to some girl’s light hand

In her companion train. Thus grown

Ripe for thee is Radha known.

Hear, Madhav, this conclusion true

And hearing, what Love wills that do.