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CWSA.- Volume 5

Part Two. Translations from Bengali
Section One. Vaishnava Devotional Poetry

Imitated from the Bengali of
Chundidas

Radha’s Complaint in Absence

O heart, my heart, a heavy pain is thine!

What land is that where none doth know

Love’s cruel name nor any word of sin?

My heart, there let us go.

Friend of my soul, who then has called love sweet?

Laughing I called from heavenly spheres

The sweet love close; he came with flying feet

And turned my life to tears.

What highborn girl, exiling virgin pride,

Has wooed love to her with a laugh?

His fires shall burn her as in harvest-tide

The mowers burn the chaff.

O heart, my heart, merry thy sweet youth ran

In fields where no love was; thy breath

Is anguish, since his cruel reign began.

What other cure but death?