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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Horo Thacoor

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(The same)

Look, Lolita, the stream one loves so

And water brings each day!

But what is this strange light that moves so,

In Jamouna today?

What is it shining, heaving, glimmering,

Is it a flower or face

Thus shimmering with the water’s shimmering

And swaying as it sways?

Is it a lotus darkly blooming

In Jamouna’s clear stream?

What else the depths opaque illuming

Could with such beauty claim?

Is it his shadow whom dark-burning

In sudden bloom we see

When with our brimming jars returning

We pass the tamal-tree?

Is there in upper heavens or under

A moon that’s dark of hue?

By daylight does that moon of wonder

Its mystic dawn renew?