IN THE YOUTH of the world, Himalaya, you sprang from the rent breast of the earth, and hurled your burning challenges to the sun, hill after hill. Then came the mellow time when you said to yourself, 'No more, no further!' and your fiery heart, that raged for the freedom of clouds, found its limits, and stood still to salute the limitless. After this check on your passion, beauty was free to play upon your breast, and trust surrounded you with the joy of flowers and birds.
You sit in your solitude like a great reader, on whose lap lies open some ancient book with its countless pages of stone. What story is written there, I wonder?is it the eternal wedding of the divine ascetic, Shiva, with Bhavani, the divine love?the drama of the Terrible wooing the power of the Frail?

       আর        আমায় আমি নিজের শিরে
                                         বইব না।
       আর        নিজের দ্বারে কাঙাল হয়ে
                                         রইব না।
       এই          বোঝা তোমার পায়ে ফেলে
                      বেড়িয়ে পড়ব অবহেলে--
                      কোনো খবর রাখব না ওর,
                           কোনো কথাই কইব না।
                       আমায় আমি নিজের শিরে
                                         বইব না।
                    বাসনা মোর যারেই পরশ
                                         করে সে,
                    আলোটি তার নিবিয়ে ফেলে
                                         নিমেষে।
       ওরে        সেই অশুচি, দুই হাতে তার
                    যা এনেছে চাই নে সে আর,
                    তোমার প্রেমে বাজবে না যা
                           সে আর আমি সইব না
                     আমায় আমি নিজের শিরে
                                         বইব না।

GUESTS OF my life,
You came in the early dawn, and you in the night,
Your name was uttered by the Spring flowers and yours by the showers of rain.
You brought the harp into my house and you brought the lamp.
After you had taken your leave I found God's footprints on my floor.
Now when I am at the end of my pilgrimage I leave in the evening flowers of worship my salutations to you all.