I
For your blithe step I sigh
Gone on the road before me;
For your warm hand I cry
On life’s path rough and stormy.
‘Tis weary in wind and rain,
Trudging the open plain,
Moorland and heather ;
‘Tis hard against blasts to beat
Lonely without you, sweet ;
No more together!
Under one cloak with me,
Love’s warm cloak under,
With you I recked, for glee,
Rain-shower nor thunder.
Reft of your warmth I press
My wrap of loneliness
Shivering round me:
Dead leaves come pattering down
On the bleak way; all alone
Winter has found me.
II
Lonely of you, my darling,
That heart chill, to hear no more
Your voice like music’s oar
Waft on its tones apart
To fairy lands my heart.
‘Tis as life’s road had in it
Now not a warbling linnet,
Throstle, or starling.
You, of song-birds the sweetest,
Filled the thickets with singing,
And still the sweet notes ringing
As every moment back
Would bring the voice I lack.
Sweet notes! of all sounds now
The mournfullest that thou,
Echo, repeatest.
The world to silence hollow
Empty of you is grown,
Since the silver is flown
Of your fresh voice. Yet all
Of you is musical.
Is it only fancy’s ear
Catches the sound ? I hear
And long to follow.
(Manmohan Ghose)
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