NOT FOR ME is the love that knows no restraint, but like the foaming wine that having burst its vessel in a moment would run to waste. Send me the love which is cool and pure like your rain that blesses the thirsty earth and fills the homely earthen jars. Send me the love that would soak down into the centre of being, and from there would spread like the unseen sap through the branching tree of life, giving birth to fruits and flowers. Send me the love that keeps the heart still with the fulness of peace.
WHEN THE GONG sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by our lane, Every day I meet the hawker crying, 'Bangles, crystal bangles!' There is nothing to hurry him on, there is no road he must take, no place he must go to, no time when he must come home. I wish I were a hawker, spending my day in the road, crying, 'Bangles, crystal bangles!' When at four in the afternoon I come back from the school, I can see through the gate of that house the gardener digging the ground. He does what he likes with his spade, he soils his clothes with dust, nobody takes him to task if he gets baked in the sun or gets wet. I wish I were a gardener digging away at the garden with nobody to stop me from digging. Just as it gets dark in the evening and my mother sends me to bed, I can see through my open window the watchman walking up and down. The lane is dark and lonely, and the street-lamp stands like a giant with one red eye in its head. The watchman swings his lantern and walks with his shadow at his side, and never once goes to bed in his life. I wish I were a watchman walking the streets all night, chasing the shadows with my lantern.
যে ভাবে রমণীরূপে আপন মাধুরী আপনি বিশ্বের নাথ করিছেন চুরি যে ভাবে সুন্দর তিনি সর্ব চরাচরে, যে ভাবে আনন্দ তাঁর প্রেমে খেলা করে, যে ভাবে লতার ফুল, নদীতে লহরী, যে ভাবে বিরাজে লক্ষ্মী বিশ্বের ঈশ্বরী, যে ভাবে নবীন মেঘ বৃষ্টি করে দান, তটিনী ধরারে স্তন্য করাইছে পান, যে ভাবে পরম-এক আনন্দে উৎসুক আপনারে দুই করি লভিছেন সুখ, দুইয়ের মিলনাঘাতে বিচিত্র বেদনা নিত্য বর্ণ গন্ধ গীত করিছে রচনা, হে রমণী, ক্ষণকাল আসি মোর পাশে চিত্ত ভরি দিলে সেই রহস্য আভাসে।
