SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
from Sanskrit and Other Languages
II. From Bengali
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The spring is here, sweet friend, the spring is here
And all his captains brings to make me moan.
How many dreadful armèd things appear
One by one.
The cuckoo of his black bands captain is,
The full moon marshals his white companies.
The nectared moon grows poisonous as a snake,
A venomed arrow is the murmuring bee.
The cuckoo’s cunning note my heart doth break
Utterly.