III. 102. ham se raha na jay I HEAR THE melody of His flute, and I cannot contain myself: The flower blooms, though it is not spring; and already the bee has received its invitation. The sky roars and the lightning flashes, the waves arise in my heart, The rain falls; and my heart longs for my Lord. Where the rhythm of the world rises and falls, thither my heart has reached: There the hidden banners are flittering in the air. Kabir says: 'My heart is dying, though it lives.'
THE RAIN FELL fast. The river rushed and hissed. It licked up and swallowed the island, while I waited alone on the lessening bank with my sheaves of corn in a heap. From the shadows of the opposite shore the boat crosses with a woman at the helm. I cry to her, 'Come to my island coiled round with hungry water, and take away my year's harvest.' She comes, and takes all that I have to the last grain; I ask her to take me. But she says, 'No'-the boat is laden with my gift and no room is left for me.