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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 soul recognizes the Eternal for whom it has failed in its earthly conventional duties and incurred the censure of the world.)

I know him by the eyes all hearts that ravish,

For who is there beside him?

O honey grace of amorous sweetness lavish!

I know him by his dark compelling beauty;

Once only having spied him

For him I stained my honour, scorned my duty.

I know him by his feet of moonbeam brightness;

Because for their sake purely

I live and move, my name is taxed with lightness.

Ah now I know him surely.