নানা দুঃখে চিত্তের বিক্ষেপে
যাহাদের জীবনের ভিত্তি যায় বারংবার কেঁপে,
যারা অন্যমনা,তারা শোনো
আপনারে ভুলো না কখনো।
মৃত্যুঞ্জয় যাহাদের প্রাণ,
সব তুচ্ছতার ঊর্ধ্বে দীপ যারা জ্বালে অনির্বাণ,
তাহাদের মাঝে যেন হয়
তোমাদেরি নিত্য পরিচয়।
তাহাদের খর্ব কর যদি
খর্বতার অপমানে বন্দী হয়ে রবে নিরবধি।
তাদের সন্মানে মান নিয়ো
বিশ্বে যারা চিরস্মরণীয়।

YOU SEEMED from afar
titanic in your mysterious majesty of terror.
With palpitating heart I stood before your presence.
Your knitted brows boded ill
and sudden came down the blow
with a growl and a crash.
My bones cracked,
with bowed head I waited
for the final fury to come.
It came.
And I wondered, could this be all of the menace?
With your weapon held high in suspense
you looked mightily big.
To strike me you came down
to where I crouched low on the ground.
You suddenly became small
and I stood up.
From thence there was only pain for me
but no fear.
Great you are as death itself,
but your victim is greater than death.

WHILE AGES passed and the bees haunted the summer gardens, the moon smiled to the lilies of the night, the lightnings flashed their fiery kisses to the clouds and fled laughing, the poet stood in a corner, one with the trees and clouds. He kept his heart silent, like a flower, watched through his dreams as does the crescent moon; and wandered like the summer breeze for no purpose.
One April evening, when the moon rose up like a bubble from the depth of the sunset; and one maiden was busy watering the plants; and one feeding her doe, and one making her peacock dance, the poet broke out singing,-'O listen to the secrets of the world. I know that the lily is pale for the moon's love. The lotus draws her veil aside before the morning sun, and the reason is simple if you think. The meaning of the bee's hum in the ear of the early jasmine has escaped the learned, but the poet knows.'
The sun went down in a blaze of blush, the moon loitered behind the trees, and the south wind whispered to the lotus, that the poet was not as simple as he seemed. The maidens and youths clapped their hands and cried,-'The world's secret is out.' They looked into each other's yes and sang-'Let our secret as well be flung into the winds.'