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from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Selected Poems of Nidhu Babu

XVI

How could I know that he was waiting only

For an excuse to leave me?

I was so sure he loved me, not one lonely

Suspicion came to grieve me.

But now a small offence his pretext making

He has buried Love and left me;

Blithely has gone, his whole will of me taking,

Having of bliss bereft me.

Too well he knows my grief of heart, not caring

Tho’ it break through his disdain.

I sit forsaken, all my beauty wearing

But as a crown of pain.