SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
from Sanskrit and Other Languages
II. From Bengali
XXXII
When the young warm Love her heart doth fill
Where is the let stays woman’s will?
Alone to set forth lightly she dares,
Path or pathless not Radha who cares.
She has left her pearlèd carcanet
Her breast’s high towers that hamperèd.
The bracelets fair on her wrists that shone
All by the path has the young girl thrown.
Anklets gemmed on her feet did glow
She has thrown them far the lighter to go.
The gloom is thick and heavy the night,
But Love to her eyes makes darkness light.
Her every step new perils doth prove,
She has pierced thro’ all with the sword of Love.
Her passionate heart the poet knows.
Another like her not the wide world shows.