{"id":2304,"date":"2013-07-13T01:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:40:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:40:43","slug":"54-andal-to-the-cuckoo-vol-05-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/05-translations\/54-andal-to-the-cuckoo-vol-05-translations","title":{"rendered":"-54_Andal &#8211; To the Cuckoo.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border-width: 0px\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-style: none;border-width: medium\" width=\"100%\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<b><span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"4\">To the Cuckoo <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt;text-indent:25pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">O Cuckoo that peckest at the blossomed flower of honey<br \/>\ndripping champaka and, inebriate, pipest forth the melodious notes, be seated in thy ease and with thy babblings, which are<br \/>\nyet no babblings, call out for the coming of my Lord of the Venkata hill. For He, the pure one, bearing in his left hand the<br \/>\nwhite summoning conch shows me not his form. But He has invaded my heart; and while I pine and sigh for his love, He<br \/>\nlooks on indifferent as if it were all a play. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt;text-indent:25pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt;text-indent:25pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">I feel as if my bones had melted away and my long javelin<br \/>\neyes have not closed their lids for these many days. I am tossed on the waves of the sea of pain without finding the boat that is<br \/>\nnamed the Lord of the highest realm. Even thou must know, O Cuckoo, the pain we feel when we are parted from those whom<br \/>\nwe love. He whose pennon bears the emblem of the golden eagle, call out for his coming, O bird.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt;text-indent:25pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt;text-indent:25pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">I am a slave of Him whose stride has measured the worlds. And now because He is harsh to me, how strange that this south<br \/>\nwind and these moonbeams should tear my flesh, enfeebling me. But thou, O Cuckoo, that ever livest in this garden of mine, it<br \/>\nis not meet that thou shouldst pain me also. Indeed I shall drive thee out if He who reposes on the waters of life come not to me<br \/>\nby thy songs today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 579<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Cuckoo &nbsp; O Cuckoo that peckest at the blossomed flower of honey dripping champaka and, inebriate, pipest forth the melodious notes, be seated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-05-translations","wpcat-48-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}