Triveni Journal
1927 | 11,233,916 words
Triveni is a journal dedicated to ancient Indian culture, history, philosophy, art, spirituality, music and all sorts of literature. Triveni was founded at Madras in 1927 and since that time various authors have donated their creativity in the form of articles, covering many aspects of public life....
BY NISHIKANTO
(Translated from Bengali by Dilip Kumar Roy)
What magic beauty’s masque and dance
Has wakened earth!–what fires entrance
From far the sable shadows-like a rain of Paradise ‘blooms’
Dream-fragrance with their dust of gold on the black-hearted glooms!
Kissing the lotus under Thy feet, drinking its nectar-ooze
Our grey and miry-misted world grows irised with rich hues!
Whose marvellous light makes new and young
The sun and stars–in torrents flung:
Its gleamings trace an arabesque on the sky-intoxicate cloud:
Earth’s jewel-heart reveals her glad authentic flame love-proud.
Kissing the lotus under Thy feet, drinking its nectar-ooze
Our grey and miry-misted world grows irised with rich hues!
O Life, from life delivered, free!
Immortal in mortality!
World-charmer!–in whose gaze compassion wears heaven’s azure hue!–
O Lover of sorrowful earth!–sky mirrored in her tears’ pure dew!
Kissing the lotus under Thy feet, drinking its nectar-ooze
Our grey and miry-misted world grows irised with rich hues!
Oh, what new-wakening ecstasies
Thou stirst in the rapture of her eyes!
Rent is the eternal curtain of the Night, the death-afraid
Look on Thy aureate aura’s dawn and are immortal made.
Kissing the lotus under Thy feet, drinking its nectar-ooze
Our grey and miry-misted world grows irised with rich hues!
At the touch of Thy lips’ potent spell
Life thrills with Thy Word’s miracle:
Kindle in my heart Thy sun of love,–each ray a passionate song:
My neck engarland with the music of Thy starry throng.
Kissing the lotus under Thy feet, drinking its nectar-ooze
Our grey and miry-misted world grows irised with rich hues! 1
1 The metre and rhyme-scheme of the original are preserved.