Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Twenty-two Poems of Bidyapati

8

Childhood is fled and youth in its seat;

Not light as of old her wandering feet,

Yet are Love’s glorious envoys two

Seeing her eyes her errands do.

In secret dawns each lovely smile

And laughter low with maiden guile.

Her hand each moment plucks her dress

Its fluttering treasons to repress.

And all the low speech of her lips

From a modest head and drooping slips.

Her heavy hips have now replaced

The old lost pride of her rounded waist.

Thus I decide her doubtful state,

Conclusion sweet of sweet debate.

Thine is this fair decision’s fruit

Judgment to give and execute.

I, Bidyapati, love’s lights bring

To lady Lochima and the King.