SRI AUROBINDO

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Selected Poems of Nidhu Babu

XIII

I said in anger, “When next time he prays,

I will be sullen and repulse his charms.”

Ah me! but when I saw my lover’s face,

I quite forgot and rushed into his arms.

Mine eyes said, “We will joy in him no longer;

Vainly let him entreat nor pardon crave.”

He came, nor pardon asked; my bonds grew stronger,

I am become more utterly¹ his slave.

¹ hopelessly

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