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SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Selected Poems of Nidhu Babu

III

If the heart’s hope were never satisfied,

Then no man could for long his life retain.

The cloud to which the impatient rain-lark cried

Contents at last the suffering bird with rain

And bids him not to thirst forever.

And see the lamp with the moth flitting near it;

A little forward and he swells the fire.

But he invites that end and does not fear it,

Gladly he burns himself at love’s desire.

In bliss to die is his endeavour.