TIRED OF waiting, you burst your bonds, impatient flowers, before the winter had gone. Glimpses of the unseen comer reached your wayside watch, and you rushed out running and panting, impulsive jasmines, troops of riotous roses.
You were the first to march to the breach of death, your clamour of colour and perfume troubled the air. You laughed and pressed and pushed each other, bared your breast and dropped in heaps.
The Summer will come in its time, sailing in the floodtide of the south wind. But you never counted slow moments to be sure of him. You recklessly spent your all in the road, in the terrible joy of faith.
You heard his footsteps from afar, and flung your mantle of death for him to tread upon. Your bonds break even before the rescuer is seen, you make him your own ere he can come and claim you.

THEY HATED and killed and men praised them.
But God in shame hastens to hide its memory under the green grass.

মরু কহে, অধমেরে এত দাও জল,
ফিরে কিছু দিব হেন কী আছে সম্বল?
মেঘ কহে, কিছু নাহি চাই, মরুভূমি,
আমারে দানের সুখ দান করো তুমি।