At the window I lean,
And my heart is a mist.
Tis a whispering scene,
Where all was whist!
Whist and still was the garden ; but now a breeze
Takes the tree-tops all, the whispering trees;
Makes of verdure music and shakes dead silence to life,
O silence that tombs at my heart, without hope, without
strife!
Sighing, the stair
I slowly descend.
Strayed pilgrims so fare
Who roam without end.
Down the ghostly staircase, where her lost tread
Haunts my heart with the music of days that are dead,
My own step daunts me with echoes down through the
gloom,
O echoing dusk at my heart that aches with her empty
room!
Out in the garden,
Where flowers seem amiss,
I hear it sigh “pardon”
To be what it is.
Swaying, the branches above me seem one long sigh.
O tremulous wash of sound that pauses to die,
They have eased their sad hearts out on the swell of the
breeze,
O tremblings of deep-drawn sighs that hurt and never
give ease.
Sighing, I wonder
Up at green leaves,
To see them grow fonder
With the gust that bereaves
On the very breeze that shakes them, which ere it is
done
Robs their lovely thousands, and one by one
Makes them whirl to the ground in yellowing sheaves,
O gust at whose dance my heart in a passion of mystery
grieves.
Whence has it blown,
Invisible death,
From the blue unknown?
It is life, it is breath
Unto them; for the whole bough quivering blows one
way,
Rippling ecstasy takes to dance with the gay,
Unseen freshness, that whirls the drooping foliage,
awake,–
O whirl at my own sad heart that asks to be still and
break!
(Manmohan Ghose)
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