AT YOUTH'S coronation, Kalidasa, You took your seat, your beloved by your side, in Love's primal paradise. Earth spread its emerald-green carpet beneath your feet, the sky held over your heads its canopy gold-embroidered; the seasons danced round you carrying their wine cups of varied allurements, the whole universe yielded itself to your loneliness of delight, leaving no trace of human sorrows and sufferings in the immense solitude of your bridal chamber. Suddenly God's curse descended from on high hurling its thunderbolt of separation upon the boundless detachment of youth's egotism. The seasons' ministry in a moment was ended When the veil was wrenched from love's isolation, and on the tear-misted sky appeared the pageantry of the rainy world of June across which journeyed the sad notes of your bereaved heart towards a distant dream.
BRING BEAUTY and order into my forlorn life, woman, as you brought them into my house when you lived. Sweep away the dusty fragments of the hours, fill the empty jars and mend all neglects. Then open the inner door of the shrine, light the candle, and let us meet there in silence before our God.