কে গো অন্তরতর সে। আমার চেতনা আমার বেদনা তারি সুগভীর পরশে। আঁখিতে আমার বুলায় মন্ত্র, বাজায় হৃদয়বীণার তন্ত্র, কত আনন্দে জাগায় ছন্দ কত সুখে দুখে হরষে। সোনালি রুপালি সবুজে সুনীলে সে এমন মায়া কেমনে গাঁথিলে, তারি সে আড়ালে চরণ বাড়ালে ডুবালে সে সুধাসরসে। কত দিন আসে কত যুগ যায় গোপনে গোপনে পরান ভুলায়, নানা পরিচয়ে নানা নাম লয়ে নিতি নিতি রস বরষে।
I ONLY SAID, 'When in the evening the round full moon gets entangled among the branches of that Kadam tree, couldn't somebody catch it?' But dada' laughed at me and said, 'Baby, you are the silliest child I have ever known. The moon is ever so far from us, how could anybody catch it?' I said, 'Dada, how foolish you are! When mother looks out of her window and smiles down at us playing, would you call her far away?' Still dada said, 'You are a stupid child! But, baby, where could you find a net big enough to catch the moon with?' I said, 'Surely you could catch it with your hands.' But dada laughed and said, 'You are the silliest child I have known. If it came nearer, you would see how big the moon is.' I said, 'Dada, what nonsense they teach at your school! When mother bends her face down to kiss us does her face look very big?' But still dada says, 'You are a stupid child.'
I WANT TO give you something, my child, for we are drifting in the stream of the world. Our lives will be carried apart, and our love forgotten. But I am not so foolish as to hope that I could buy your heart with my gifts. Young is your life, your path long, and you drink the love we bring you at one draught and turn and run away from us. You have your play and your playmates. What harm is there if you have no time or thought for us. We, indeed, have leisure enough in old age to count the days that are past, to cherish in our hearts what our hands have lost for ever. The river runs swift with a song, breaking through all barriers. But the mountain stays and remembers, and follows her with his love.
