In the bliss, they say, of the love that laves the skies and
ocean and earth,
All things hasten to lose, they say, the grieving ripple of
birth.
Why, then, ah! do I tremble and pale at the thought of
thee, O Death,
And shivering, stand to take my plunge in that infinite
sea of breath?
There are the lost joys of my life, far sunk beyond rave
and fret;
There are the souls of dreams unflowered, and the roses
of regret.
There is the sunken dreadful gold of the once that might
have been,
Shipwrecked memory anchors there, and my dead leaves
there are green.
Why in the merge of all with all by a plunge recoverable,
Desperate diver shudder I from all pearls in one shell;
For there more precious than all things lost is the one
that I let fall,
One heart brimful of love for me, her love that encasketed
all.
Dear, like a trembling drop of dew I held thee in my hand;
How of a sudden could I so spill as to lose it in infinite
sand,
Fresh on the rose-petal of life, with its fragrance through
and through
Drenching my heart? I held thee long, thou trembling
drop of dew.
As I stood sadly secure of thee, as happy I looked my
fill,
Thou from that rose petal didst glide and vanish in salt
sea rill.
Now by the infinite shore I roam, the bliss that all
things laves;
Down-bent, weeping, I seek for thee by a mournful
music of waves,
Deaf to the grandeur and the roar that hath washed
thee away from me;
In the streaming sands and my own salt tears I wildly
look to thee.
Thou with the freshness and the foam art glorying
borne away;
I mid wreck and driftwood grope and dally with all
dismay.
“Come back, tremulous heart,” I sob,
“heart’s bliss, come back,” I cry.
Only the solemn ecstasy of waters makes reply.
(Manmohan Ghose)
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