Wednesday 20 March 2013

Who knocks on my door? `Ke Dilo Aabar Aaghat' (Original poem by Tagore, attempted translation)

Who knocks on my door, yet again,
On this nocturnal hour, who stands at my gate,
Who does he seek?

'Twas many a vernal day ago
That youthful sojourner visited me.
Plunged my soul, anxious so,
Into the unfathomable sea of glee.

This dark hour of a drizzly, lonely night,
The rain pours down while I
Let the storm put out my light,
In my cottage decrepit, sit vigilantly by.

O unknown guest, thy song and tone,
Are in unison with my innermost chord.
Wonder if I too may with you join
And lose myself in this darkness unbound.

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