I shall gladly suffer the pride of cultu… if only in some happy future I am born a… forest. The herd—boy who grazes his cattle sitti… tree, and idly weaves gunja flowers into…

Over the green and yellow rice fields sw… The bees forget to sip their honey; drun… None shall go back home, brothers, this… We will take the blue sky by storm and p… Laughters fly floating in the air like f…

91 THE great earth makes herself hospitabl… with the help of the grass. 92 THE birth and death of the leaves

Then finish the last song and let us lea… Forget this night when the night is no m… Whom do I try to clasp in my arms? Dre… My eager hands press emptiness to my hea…

I know that the day will come when my sight of this earth shall be los… and life will take its leave in silence, drawing the last curtain over my eyes. Yet stars will watch at night,

Mother, the light has grown grey in the… the time is. There is no fun in my play, so I have c… Saturday, our holiday. Leave off your work, mother; sit here by…

Pluck this little flower and take it, de… droop and drop into the dust. I may not find a place in thy garland, b… pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear… aware, and the time of offering go by.

O mother, the young Prince is to pass b… attend to my work this morning? Show me how to braid up my hair; tell me… Why do you look at me amazed, mother? I know well he will not glance up once a…

In the beginning of time, there rose fro… dream two women. One is the dancer at th… desired of men, she who laughs and pluck… from their cold meditations and of fools… scatters them like seeds with careless h…

Supposing I became a chanpa flower, jus… branch high up that tree, and shook in t… danced upon the newly budded leaves, wou… You would call, “Baby, where are you?”… myself and keep quite quiet.

You left me and went on your way. I thought I should mourn for you and se… But ah, my evil fortune, time is short. Youth wanes year after year; the spring… Should I neglect all this to gaze after…

When I called you in your garden Mango blooms were rich in fragrance — Why did you remain so distant, Keep your doors so tightly fastened? Blossoms grew to ripe fruit—clusters —

I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit b… that I have in hand I will finish after… Away from the sight of thy face my heart… and my work becomes an endless toil in a… Today the summer has come at my window w…