{"id":1465,"date":"2013-07-13T01:34:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:34:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:34:59","slug":"13-bankim-chandra-chatterjee-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/05-collected-poems-volume-05\/13-bankim-chandra-chatterjee-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-13_Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t\tBankim Chandra Chatterji<\/font><\/b> <\/font> <\/p>\n

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\nHow hast thou lost, O month of honey and flowers,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe voice that was thy soul! Creative showers,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe cuckoo’s daylong cry and moan of bees,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nZephyrs and streams and softly-blossoming trees
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAnd
\nmurmuring laughter and heart-easing tears<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAnd tender thoughts and great and the compeers<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nOf lily and jasmine and melodious birds,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAll these thy children into lovely words<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHe changed at will and made soul-moving books<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nFrom hearts of men and women’s honied looks.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nO master of delicious words! the bloom<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nOf chompuk and the breath of king-perfume<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHave made each musical sentence with the noise<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nOf women’s ornaments and sweet household joys<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAnd laughter tender as the voice of leaves<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nPlaying with vernal winds. The eye receives<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThat reads these lines an image of delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nA world with shapes of spring and summer, noon and night;
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\nAll
\nnature in a page, no pleasing show<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBut men more real than the friends we know.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nO plains, O hills, O rivers of sweet Bengal,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nO land of love and flowers, the spring-bird’s call<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAnd southern wind are sweet among your trees:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nYour poet’s words are sweeter far than these.
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\nYour
\nheart was this man’s heart. Subtly he knew
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\nThe
\nbeauty and divinity in you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHis nature kingly was and as a god<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nIn large serenity and light he trod<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHis daily way, yet beauty, like soft flowers
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\nWreathing
\na hero’s sword, ruled all his hours.
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\nThus
\nmoving in these iron times and drear,
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\nBarren
\nof bliss and robbed of golden cheer,<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nHe sowed the desert with ruddy-hearted rose,
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\nThe
\nsweetest voice that ever spoke in prose.               <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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