Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Nidhou

6

Sweet, gaze not always on thine own face in the mirror,

Lest looking so on thine own wondrous beauty,

Thou lose the habit of thy queenly duty

And thy poor subject quite forget.

Well may I fear such fatal error,

Since they who always on their own wealth look,

Grow misers and to spend it cannot brook,

Lest thou like these grow miser of thy beauty, sweet.