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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size="4">Modern Poems</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>O GODDESS, VENDOR
OF </b><st1:City><st1:place><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>LIBERTY</b></st1:place></st1:City><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></b></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O goddess, vendor of
liberty!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Bind me not in thy
boundlessness; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And in the unending path
of destiny </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Happy <span class=GramE>be</span>
thy unmoving voyage.</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Goddess,
veiling the Love Eternal,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Come to our
mortal <span class=GramE>land,</span> here bring Heaven's nectar, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To this
transient pilgrim life;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Guide
eternal! <span class=GramE>draw</span> the pause of our tiresomeness.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Mind of magic!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A stirless stream art thou
upon our stilled earth,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>As though the sweet
enchanted ocean engulfing a golden boat – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O I kiss the Twin Hearts!</p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:125.55pt;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; THE VIGIL <o:p></o:p></b></p>

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18.45pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>(A Surrealistic Poem)</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Twigs and straws, broken
bits, strewn about</p>

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none;tab-stops:42.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>in</span> a
lumber room – all nettles' teeth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Shadows, somewhat old and
familiar, humming low</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:149.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>make</span> a merry band.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If you have the trump card
to flick down,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:right 250.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span>
whole game would turn right about:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the blue hibiscus bush
of adolescence – Io,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:right 250.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>the</span> dumbfounded Sesame!<span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:137.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page –
166<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>THE NET IS CAST<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The net is
cast and the pool is a drunken</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 171.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>swell</span> and swirl:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Shrunken
blackened petals are afloat,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Oh, the children that came
down under a curse:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Fortunate
are they who remember past lives; here</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>it</span>
is a <st1:time Minute="0" Hour="0">midnight</st1:time> trap for rats­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>If this
were all the shelter, the other shelter</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 171.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>would</span> be nowhere.</p>

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mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 171.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No more time to lose – whose
is the refrain</p>

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none;tab-stops:42.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>coming</span>
back again and again?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Whose</span>
the image looking straight into your eyes</p>

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none;tab-stops:85.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>level</span>
to level – since when?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Under the rotting weeds
they go down</p>

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none;tab-stops:85.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>into</span>
the depths one by one</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Flowerets that grandmother
wove into a pattern,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>as</span> though with
the lightest strokes of a brush!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RUHIRA SHYAM</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>BARITONE<o:p></o:p></b></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Let us all
move together, one and all, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Together
into the cavern of the ribs, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Raise there
a song of discordant sounds­ – </p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Red and blue and white, kin or alien.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Listen,
the groan plays on:</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Dreams
as if possessed</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Swing,
like bats on branches;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Is
now the time for dance?</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Come,</span> let us all move together, one and all.</p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Let the
streams meet in the body, one and all; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Yea,</span> let the bones brighten up still more,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 167<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Let
us all go around the fire</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
scrape and eat of the very liver of the Muse. . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Let
us go, let us go, <span class=GramE>let</span> us go one and all.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>TO THE MOTHER <o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span><st1:date Year="1959" Day="21" Month="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 21
 February 1959</st1:date></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Hold me so
to Thy breast, O Mother, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Let aeon
after aeon pass,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I'd on Thy
bosom, Mother,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rest my
head for e'<span class=SpellE>er</span>.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Closed are
all my concerns with life, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Closed are
all my dealings with the world, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Renounced
are all my desires,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>For the celestial sweetness of Thy Love.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Not for me
the royal seat,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Not for me
ruby and robe,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Nothing,
nothing but Thy touch alone </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Can fill the thirst of my soul.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Immersed
Thou art in bliss,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the
boundless bliss of Thy infinite consciousness, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Hold <span
class=GramE>me,</span> bind me, 0 Mother,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>To Thy breast of eternal ecstasy.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>DAYS. . . NIGHTS. .
. AGES<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Days. . .
Nights. . . Ages. . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>A shattered mind without solace.</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Words.</span> . . tunes. . . rhythms. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>What else
but sighs of misery.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 168<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Eyes
unwinking and tearful</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Close at
the lashing even of a frown; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Vain lament
weeps its winding ways </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Only to mock at me.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And yet
desires cry out in despair </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And hopes
rise in life's bosom. . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>The path ahead lies through dust and gale.</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I hear afar
the breathings of a high flood.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I long for
the song of freedom,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
helpless the mind is bound in its own webs </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And I
follow the tortuous path in front </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Through <span
class=GramE>nights.</span> . . ages.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LABANYA PALIT</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>IN THY NAME</b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:7.2pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In Thy name the eyes are
still dim with tears </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>And the
heavens tremulous with the song of birds.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In Thy name
a world of flowers is still in bloom</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And on
memory's waters spread grey yearnings and illusions.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In Thy name Love lingers
still in the bosom</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And the wounded heart
weeps and laughs in silence.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In Thy name a blue spell
still dwells upon life</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And eyes in their depths
enshrine a mournful dark shadow.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PARIMAL CHAKRABARTY</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 169<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.2pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>YESTERNIGHT<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There
passed a storm last night:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A whole
forest of trees that grew lush in my mind </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Now stand
shorn of their leaves</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Like rows of skeletons.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Last night
a cruel, ruthless storm</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Passed by.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Yet in its
very wake,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A crescent
moon,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Like a
necklet</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Rose in a corner of the sky.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I gazed at
it</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And the
memory of the storm vanished: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
withered forest of the mind </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Bathed in a wondrous light.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
crescent moon, like a necklet . . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Was it your
mouth, was it your eye? </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O my far
one!</p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RAMAKRISHNA PRASAD
CHATTOPADHYAYA</span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>A FIRE-FLY IS THIS
MIND<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A fire-fly
is this mind,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Now it
flares, now it fades; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It must
cross the darkness, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>So runs
about here and there.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>As
if a needle of light</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I t
pierces the mighty curtain:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>On
an edge of the inner being</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
weaves a fringe of glimmering consciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 170<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even
like a lightning flash </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
this small bit of my sky </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That
too gleams</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Off and on.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A fire-fly
is this mind</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And I know
it will never receive an answer: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Around lies
a blind Night, dark, impenetrable </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Ever dumb.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Within
there as if the spark of a question </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This
fire-fly of the mind</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With no
reason blooms and withers.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It vainly
believes that all existence hangs on it </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>As a flower on its stem.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And yet</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There is a
secret <span class=SpellE>rumour</span> in the darkness</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>As creation rows along dashing and splashing.</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To that
measure does this fire-fly of the mind </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Glimmer – flare
and fade</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Seeking an
ascension elsewhere</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Beyond knowing and unknowing.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PREMENDRA MITRA</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>ON LOSING<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Have
you ever lost your <span class=GramE>way</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Mar
from marts and paths and cities</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.6in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>in</span> an endless meadow Where with a
lone <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>simool<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
sky passes its life-long day?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There
after a long search for a road</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
earth lies down, eyes closed,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Heart
reposed,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>The lone <span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>simool<i> </i></span>at
her head standing silent.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 171<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Tired in
the search for a road</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Some chance
one day to arrive at the meadow, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Amazed they
look</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>About and above.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There where
no road exists</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.2pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Just a trail appears of a new hope, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.2pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Where all other ways are lost </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.2pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One seems to find one's own.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.2pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:6.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One day, why not, go out and lose your way,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>leave</span> your familiar city for the unknown meadow,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:6.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>There where a lone <i>simool </i>and the sky</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:6.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Stand and look into each other's eyes.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:6.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PREMENDRA MITRA</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>INTO THE BOAT<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Trampling
my own shadow</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>on</span> a long, long path I came </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And saw a
river of gladness.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I pushed
the bank with my left foot </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And with the right landed</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>into</span> the boat.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:.3in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Here
a straw canopy over the head, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
wooden floor to sit upon,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
helm sure and certain,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.05pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>an</span> oar within reach</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
a sail to unfurl in the sky, – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All
were there:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
whole lung-full of breath </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;text-indent:22.5pt;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>turned</span> into a flight of pigeons</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>that</span>
found the sky.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.8in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PURNENDUPRASAD
BHATTACHARYA<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 172<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:
10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="center"><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>TREMBLINGLY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WAIT<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know not
when you may arrive </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From behind
the light:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The waves
may break upon the door </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And I shall
stretch out my hands <span class=GramE>In</span> a tremor.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have
lived ages in the embrace of the shade: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Now I do
not see the earth's sun</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have made
a home of the shade:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have not
seen myself</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Mirrored
nor in the light, nor in the air</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Nor in the water.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:151.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Tremblingly I wait:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
know not when you may arrive </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>From
behind the screen of light,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Out
of my sight, in the pattern of cruel falsehood </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
have been used</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
for ages I know not myself.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Tremblingly
I <span class=GramE>await</span>:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I know not
when you may arrive </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Just from
behind my own self!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>TIMELESS<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Time and Space endless,
seamless the grey ocean,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Then aeons of trance broke
into a voiceful play of tossing waves </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And last an insentient
earth now holds in her womb the seed of </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>consciousness</span>.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>We who have
seen a red lotus blazing ceaselessly </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>And a white lotus ever winkless upon the earth. . .</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Do we yet
understand? Can we assess the value?<span style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 173<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even today the earth is
sundered and man goes hungry and</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:96.25pt;text-align:center;text-indent:
155.75pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>tortured</span>,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Blood burns in pain, life
lives barren in the veins;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And still, O Lord, thou
hast sent thy messengers time and</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:262.05pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>again</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who brought with them the
legacy of the starry lights. . <span class=GramE>.</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Another hunger, another
untamed pain now</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Has awakened a sudden
mighty restlessness in the roots of </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:3.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>the</span> being!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It is Night's low tide: in
the dark we tug the boat on . . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sinews we have none, when
shall we fly our wings,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>when</span> shall the consciousness
dawn?<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>NIGHT&nbsp; COMES&nbsp; BACK<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Night comes back again and
again, and yet</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It goes back again and
again, and</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The morning sky rings with
the quiet and tranquil music of Light.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sorrow comes back again
and again, and yet </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It goes back again and
again, and</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Life swells with the
billowing <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>ocean</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Delight</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Death comes back again and
again, and yet </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It goes back again and
again, and</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Man's deathless world
sings the hymn of Birth.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NIRENDRA
LAL CHAKRAVARTI<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 174<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.4pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>CLOUDS, EVENING AND&nbsp;
I<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Clouds,
evening and I</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:45.0pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>stand</span> under the sky.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It appears</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Daylight is
an illusion</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
darkness is real:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And I have
gone back again into the womb</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:43.4pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>and</span> effaced the scars of time.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Time here
is timelessness.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>When you
are in its embrace</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:43.4pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>there</span> is no death nor birth,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You are
just a grey notch upon the sky – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ended the
earth's business, vanished the crowd.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'><font face="Times New Roman">SANJOY
BHATTACHARYA</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>MY&nbsp; MIND&nbsp; MUST&nbsp; HAVE&nbsp; YEARNED<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>My mind
must have yearned for some purest white: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That is why
one day the sunbright embrace of hills</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:21.8pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>and</span> clouds left me enchanted­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And I find
another light in the light of my eyes. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This is
also the whiteness of the soul in its vastness: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
illumines smoothly</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:21.8pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>the</span> thickened darkness among the stars;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Its silence
descends like moonbeams­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The whole
business of life seems</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>to</span>
possess that alone;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>and</span> in the dark cave of the heart it is that I seek,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I seek.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SANJOY BHATTACHARYA</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 175<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:13.65pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>THE SHADOW OF THE
HARBOUR<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
dismal shadow upon the harbour,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A broad day in swoon. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But
you are restive, my beauty! <span class=GramE>my</span> love!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Wipe then
the red mark on your memory,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>forget</span> the words of promise. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The bank
heaves with the rising tide. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>all's</span> ready for the drift!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Boats and
masts and sails and the</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
class=GramE>bustle</span> and hubbub. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And <span
class=GramE>your</span> secret desire and the boundless swell of waters.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I too cast
my blood's yearning into the streaming flow. . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>My destiny, the gloomy shadow upon the harbour.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SUNIL KUMAR NANDI</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>BEYOND SOUND AND
LIGHT<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Oh,
wipe out all the light of the sky,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
whole world of the sun must never be seen </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Anywhere.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Kindle
the flame of the eye that is turned </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Inward­
– </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
darkness in the heart – and see</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>If it does not grow yet more dark.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
then, the sounds surging mountain-high, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Let
them, even like a landslide, hurtle down, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One
and all of these shouting particles </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Under
the shelter of Night's solitude:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Seal
up your ears, listen to the stillness </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Within
the heart, listen</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>If it is yet more still...</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 176<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
0in;margin-left:1.0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%'>Silence
evermore, solitude evermore,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Darkness
evermore – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
my heart shines the light of countless suns </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
I shall know if you are there!<span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>DEBIPRASAD MAITRA</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>A BIT OF LIGHT<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A bit of light within my soul,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>But more perhaps is there of darkness. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Darkness hides in secret</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>In the fathomless depths.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A streak from some Dawn</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Shall touch one day this soul</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And this soul shall rise</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Out of the Darkness</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And in its body of a flooding fountain </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Shall achieve a full-throated cadence.</span>
</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>So shall the Secret be <span class=SpellE><span
class=GramE>relumed.</span></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>My love in the core of my heart</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I have borne everywhere around. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You will see every breath</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Has left there its imprint­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Oh, you will see there a child</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Pure and innocent</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And you will long to clasp it</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Within your bosom.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>SANJAYA
BHATTACHARYA</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 177<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0' align="center"><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>WATER LOTUS<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Oh,
the deep, the unerring aim:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:195.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In a moment you did it, Ocean.<span style='mso-tab-count:
1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
you knew not even the gift you made. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In
barren June you brought down the whole monsoon.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.65pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Jewels and pearls, emeralds and sapphires, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.65pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Summer and autumn, rain and spring, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:-1.65pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Dreams and desires and gains, all</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All are
faint images of inanity.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Towers and
arches, columns and corridors </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Crumble
down, huge abysses fade out: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Decline or
fall effaced in a moment.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Alone
survives the heaving flatness,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
humid heart seeps with its dripping liquid,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
melts in an ardent embrace, in an unerring gesture!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Into your
waters, this water is poured out,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:64.3pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>offering</span> all unto the last, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O, the
Deep, the Vast, receive within you </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This lotus,
flower of the water!<span
style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>NABENDRA CHAKRABARTY</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>SOBS SWAY NATURE...<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Sobs sway <span
class=GramE>Nature.</span> . . whose are the sobs?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the sky even beyond
Sight: drops of <span class=GramE>pain.</span> . . whose are these?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The blue is <span
class=GramE>mute.</span> . . aeons pass. . . a frozen stillness. . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even now here am <span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I<b>, </b></span>an illusory proxy bird. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I write poems picking up
the twinkles of stars</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>as</span> they scatter their hues and shed their petals,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>In this
dwindling glow of footlights. . .</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The shadows sway timidly,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 178<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0'>The
darkness stretches hesitant her arms,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Thoughts
are a-cold in doubt and fear,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The dense
silence of a <span class=GramE>dark age</span> spreading mist and haze, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>A sky of hard concrete.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:8.6pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Termless concepts piled
somewhere beyond ken­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Pain drips in the blue
mute and mystic. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Ages past bring down their
primal stillness,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The stars make an
illegible script on heaven's glowing slate. . .</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who has scribbled this
poem unutterable and <span class=GramE>undecipherable,</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who has written down these
unending <span class=GramE>ideas,</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Who has painted this image
of the mind, beyond <span class=GramE>understanding,</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>An epistle of things
secret... a throbbing heart... <span class=GramE>Stars sleepless.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A sob sways <span
class=GramE>Nature.</span> . . the whole night </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Someone is in pain, a
muffled and repressed pain.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>RABINDRA NATH</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>STILL I WADE
THROUGH<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>His name is
written on the wings of sunlight, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>His thought
<span class=GramE>lies</span> a harvest field of autumn. . . </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And under
the sky of the ending day</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Often do I
lay down my <span class=GramE>head</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>with</span> eyes shadow-bedimmed.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
glide into the sun-flooded waters </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And
I look for a shade­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>No
shore anywhere,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
trudge on foot upon dusty roads­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Oh,
these roads of our earth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Shall I
find it at last shall I?</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>In the sun, in the fields, at the end of the day?</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 179</span><span
style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.45pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Still I
wade through billowing waters­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span>
unmoving goal in front.<span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>BASABI DUTT A</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>I CAN LEAVE
EVERYTHING<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I can leave
everything, but not the tree; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May it <span
class=GramE>remain,</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Straight
and simple, may the tree remain </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>in</span> my life,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May it
remain, remain ever wakeful.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I can leave
everything, but not the river; May it remain,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>By the side
of the tree, may it remain in my <span class=GramE>life,</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May it
remain, remain ever wakeful.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I can leave
everything, but not the boat; May it remain,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May the
boat remain upon the river, remain in my life,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>May it
remain ever <span class=GramE>wakeful.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>All I can
give up, not you, O my pole-star!</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>You must
remain – ­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Tree and
river and boat, when all are swept away</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:64.3pt;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>in</span> the black darkness,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Even then,
do remain transfixed in the night sky.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;'>Page – 180<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>

</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>THE CENTRE OF THE
BODY</b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The centre of this body is
a sun</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>with</span>
its seven-winged flames.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Burn the strings of the
body – the fire is pitiless,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>he</span> does not
know, if it is soft or hard, high or Iowa scale.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>He dissolves in the fiery
heat the thin cord that links me</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>to</span>
the earth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the heavens of your
heart</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:65.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I am
a flying light, a flame bird. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The pair of wings is
loosened by the heat­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The body drunk with the
black smoke of gold</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:65.0pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>is</span> sunk in a swoon­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Both lie out-stretched,
the front veering upward.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The wandering stars in the
spaces are in flight,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>in</span> flight – out of sight. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The sun has absconded, the
moon a handful of ashes. </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Draining life to a pale
emptiness, a bunch of roses</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.9in;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.9in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>blooms</span> in the crimson garden of the veins,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The pupil of the eye is
torn out, the tired eye-lashes</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:.9in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>droop</span>
down stilled.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Time trembles with the
rise and fall of the breast.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Life with its wings of
fire is a soaring light: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Your heavens are a
cloudless beauty – ­</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Love and affection, memory
and happiness </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>Are now
a cascade</span> of gold-dust, as though </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:67.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>drifting</span> autumn leaves.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:67.5pt;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; UMA DEVl</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>RAINS COME DOWN<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Rains
come down in a sudden burst,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Overcasting
all the ego-skies,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
destitute traveller turns to penance and solitude: </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Yesteryear's
accounts are settled and closed.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 181<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

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</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Tearing open the heart's poignant secrecy.</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Chunks
of darkness crash down,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The
eye shades within it a splashing stream, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Footprints
leave their echoes behind.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>A
long night stops stilled in pain,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Hard
it is to forget even if one wishes to; </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>It
lashes and breaks upon the inner soul­ – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>The promise of a </span><st1:City><st1:place><span class=GramE>Sunrise</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
class=GramE>.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;text-indent:.75in;line-height:
150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>SISIR BHATTACHARYA</span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>ONE BY ONE I CATCH THE STARS<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>One by one I catch the stars</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And I
bring them to touch my body one by one:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>They all
turn into birds and flyaway.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The stars glow like fire-flies</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>They come and settle all over my body:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Indeed my
body is made of countless stars.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>At long last I have found out:</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:16.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>I exist
no longer,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Filled
with stars, am myself a Star.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:42.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Take away the stars and I am no longer in the body,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I leave my
star-filled body</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And go up
into the star-filled sky.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Now I am a heavenly star</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Hence I shall become a starry heaven.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>JAGADISH CHANDRA DAS</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 182<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'>

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</div>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>I AM A SWEET
FONDLING<o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
am a sweet fondling of the Sky,</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I
condescended to come down upon earth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:
11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Whoever
makes a link with <span class=GramE>me</span> </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span
class=GramE>Creates a link with the sky.</span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I am a
human from the sky treading upon this mud, </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>At every
step my anklets ring through earth's bosom.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Upon the
soft breast of earth</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I draw the
very image of the sky.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>With my
tinkling anklets on</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I walk
through the bosom of the earth.</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>This earth
is a stage for me,<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;line-height:150%;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>I play
there a celestial drama – </p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>a</span> true and real drama!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center;text-indent:.5in;
line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:2.0in;text-align:center;text-indent:
.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>JAGADISH CHANDRA DAS</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 183<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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