Kasinath the new young singer fills the hall with sound:
The seven notes dance in his throat like seven tame birds.
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At dawn shey(1) departed
My mind tried to console me -
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Why do you speak so softly, Death, Death,
Creep upon me, watch me so stealthily?
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In the morning I cast my net into the sea.
I dragged up from the dark abyss things of strange aspect and strange beauty -- some shon
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I found a few old letters of mine carefully hidden in thy box—a few small toys for thy memory to play with
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I like to be dependent, and so for ever
with warmth and care of my mother
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Man goes into the noisy crowd
to drown his own clamour of silence.
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I am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.
My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.
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I THE DARK
In a worldless timeless lightless great emptiness
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Let your work be, bride. Listen, the
guest has come.
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Keep me fully glad with nothing. Only take my hand in your hand.
In the g
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WHEN I bring you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flowers are pain
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The fair was on before the temple.
It had rained from the early morning
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When the two sisters go to fetch
water, they come to this spot and
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O mad, superbly drunk;
If you kick open your doors and
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At midnight the would-be ascetic
announced:
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I was walking by the road, I do not
know why, when the noonday was past
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No, my friends, I shall never be an
ascetic, whatever you may say.
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Beauty is truth's smile
when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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Reverend sir, forgive this pair of
sinners. Spring winds to-day are
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It was mid-day when you went
away .
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The butterfly counts not months but moments,
and has time enough.
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Day after day he comes and goes
away.
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To the guests that must go bid
God's speed and brush away all traces
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Palm-tree: single-legged giant, topping other trees,
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She dwelt on the hillside by edge
of a maize-field, near the spring that
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When I go alone at night to my
love-tryst, birds do not sing, the wind
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Take back your coins, King's Councillor. I am of those women you
sent to the forest shrine to decoy the young ascetic who had never
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I spent my day on the scorching
hot dust of the road.
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When I called you in your garden Mango blooms were rich in fragrance -
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