১২২
সাগরের কানে জোয়ার-বেলায়
                   ধীরে কয় তটভূমি,
"তরঙ্গ তব যা বলিতে চায়
                   তাই লিখে দাও তুমি।'
সাগর ব্যাকুল ফেন-অক্ষরে
                   যতবার লেখে লেখা
চির-চঞ্চল অতৃপ্তিভরে
             ততবার মোছে রেখা ॥

I PACED ALONE on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser.
The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent.
Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evening.
His village home lay there at the end of the waste land, beyond the sugar-cane field, hidden among the shadows of the banana and the slender areca palm, the cocoa-nut and the dark green jack-fruit trees.
I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight, and saw spread before me the darkened earth surrounding with her arms countless homes furnished with cradles and beds, mothers' hearts and evening lamps, and young lives glad with a gladness that knows nothing of its value for the world.

৬৯
ভিক্ষুবেশে দ্বারে তার "দাও' বলি দাঁড়ালে দেবতা
মানুষ সহসা পায় আপনার ঐশ্বর্যবারতা॥