{"id":602,"date":"2013-07-13T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=602"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:29:09","slug":"70-to-the-cuckoo-vol-08-translations-volume-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/08-translations-volume-08\/70-to-the-cuckoo-vol-08-translations-volume-08","title":{"rendered":"-70_To the Cuckoo.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\"><font size=\"4\">To the Cuckoo*<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><b>0<\/b> Cuckoo that peckest at the<br \/>\nblossomed flower of honey-dripping Champaka and, inebriate, pipest forth the<br \/>\nmelodious notes, be seated in thy ease and with thy babblings, which are yet no<br \/>\nbabblings, call out for the coming of my Lord of the Venkata hill. For He, the<br \/>\npure one, bearing in his left hand the white summoning conch shows me not his<br \/>\nform. 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 class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><br \/>\nI feel as if my bones had melted away and my long javelin eyes have not closed<br \/>\ntheir lids for these many days. I am tossed on the waves of the sea of pain<br \/>\nwithout finding the boat that is named the Lord of the highest realm. Even thou<br \/>\nmust know, 0 Cuckoo, the pain we feel when we are parted from those whom we<br \/>\nlove. He whose pennon bears the emblem of the golden eagle, call out for his<br \/>\ncoming, 0 bird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><br \/>\nI am a slave of Him whose stride has measured the worlds. And now because He is<br \/>\nharsh to me, how strange that this south-wind and these moonbeams should tear my<br \/>\nflesh, enfeebling me. But thou, 0 Cuckoo, that ever livest in this garden of<br \/>\nmine, it is not meet that thou shouldst pain me also. Indeed I shall drive thee<br \/>\nout if He who reposes on the waters of life come not to me by thy songs today.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style='margin:0;line-height:150%'><span lang=\"EN-US\">* Andal<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\" style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 404<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Cuckoo* &nbsp; 0 Cuckoo that peckest at the blossomed flower of honey-dripping Champaka and, inebriate, pipest forth the melodious notes, be seated in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-08-translations-volume-08","wpcat-12-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}