I CALL HER MY Krishna flower though they call her dark in the village. I remember a cloud-laden day and a glance from her eyes, her veil trailing down at her feet her braided hair loose on her back. Ah, you call her dark; let that be, her black gazelle eyes I have seen. Her cows were lowing in the meadow, when the fading light grew grey. With hurried steps she came out from her hut near the bamboo grove. She raised her quick eyes to the sky, where the clouds were heavy with rain. Ah, you call her dark! let that be, her black gazelle eyes I have seen. The East wind in fitful gusts ruffled the young shoots of rice. I stood at the boundary hedge with none else in the lonely land. If she espied me in secret or not She only knows and know 1. Ah, you call her dark! let that be, her black gazelle eyes I have seen. She is the surprise of cloud in the burning heart of May, a tender shadow on the forest in the stillness of sunset hour, a mystery of dumb delight in the rain-loud night of June. Ah, you call her dark! let that be, her black gazelle eyes I have seen. I call her my Krishna flower, let all others say what they like. In the rice-field of Maina village I felt the first glance of her eyes. She had not a veil on her face, not a moment of leisure for shyness. Ah, you call her dark! let that be, her black gazelle eyes I have seen.
LET THE LINKS of my shackles snap at every step of thy dance, O Lord of Dancing, and let my heart wake in the freedom of the eternal voice. Let it feel the touch of that foot that ever sets swinging the lotus-seat of the muse, and with its perfume maddens the air through ages. Rebellious atoms are subdued into forms at thy dance-time, the suns and planets,anklets of light,twirl round thy moving feet, and, age after age. Things struggle to wake from dark slumber, through pain of life, into consciousness, and the ocean of thy bliss breaks out in tumults of suffering and joy. Before I leave, tinge my heart in secret with thine own colour, the colour of the young smile, of tears shaded with ancient sadness. Let it tinge my thoughts, my deeds, the flame of my evening lamp, the waking moment of my midnight. Before I leave, rouse my heart with the swing of thy dancing feet, the swing that wakens stars in the deep of night, frees the stream from the rocky cave, gives voice to clouds in thunder and rain, the swing by which the balance in the centre of existence is swayed in endless cycles of movement.