Baby Star

BY SRIMATI LATIKA MUKERJI

(Translated by Dilip Kumar Roy from the original poem in Bengali)

 

In the arbour of stars at dusk

I am a budding star.

In moonlight’s magic musk

I ope to love of the far.

 

I wake at fall of eve;

Cloud-bosomed, I laugh and heave;

Sometimes I draw their veil.

When darkling shadows I hail.

 

A lisping baby-star,

Homesick for the domeless Far!

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