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SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Selected Poems of Horu Thakur

VII

The soul longs for reunion with God, without whom the sweetnesses of love and life are vain.

All day and night in lonely anguish wasting

The heart’s wish to the lips unceasing comes,–

“O that I had a bird’s wings to go hasting

Where that dark wanderer roams!

I should behold the flute on loved lips resting.”

Where shall I find him, joy in his sweet kisses?

How shall I hope my love’s feet to embrace?

O void is home and vain affection’s bliss is

Without the one loved face,

Crishna who has nor home nor kindred misses.