MY MIND still buzzed with the cares of a busy day; I sat on without noting how twilight was deepening into dark. Suddenly light stirred across the gloom and touched me as with a finger.
        I lifted my head and met the gaze of the full moon widened in wonder like a child's. It held my eyes for long, and I felt as though a love-letter had been secretly dropped in at my window. And ever since my heart is breaking to write for answer something fragrant as Night's unseen flowers-great as her declaration spelt out in nameless stars.

IN THE UPPER sky, lamped by science,
the night forgets itself,
while in the underground gloom
lean hunger and bloated voracity
crash against each other
till the earth begins to tremble
and the pillars of triumph
are perilously cracked,
swaying on the brink of gaping gulfs.
Do not howl in fear
or angrily judge God,
let the swelling evil burst itself in pain
and vomit out its accumulated filth.
When the victims of a carnivorous rage
are dragged by the competition of ravenous fangs,
let the hideousness of the blood-soaked blasphemy
arouse divine anger heralding a heroic peace
out of an awful retribution.
They throng in the church
in a primitive frenzy of faith made keen by fear
which hopes to flatter their God
into a complacent mood
into a feebleness of leniency.
They feel half sure that peace will be brought down
into this demented earth
by the mere volume of their wailing
uttered in sacred text.
They have confidence in their indulgent God
who may send them timely wisdom
to divert all sacrifices needed for the worship
towards the less strong,
leaving their own soiled hoardings undivided.
But let us hope,
for the sake of the dignity of moral justice in this world,
that God will never suffer to be cheated of His due
by the miserly manipulation of a diplomatic piety
carefully avoiding all cost to itself,
that a terrible penance may have to be passed through
to its ultimate end,
leaving no remnant of poison
in a treacherously healing scar.

আলোকে আসিয়া এরা লীলা করে যায়,
      আঁধারেতে চলে যায় বাহিরে।
ভাবে মনে, বৃথা এই আসা আর যাওয়া,
      অর্থ কিছুই এর নাহি রে।
      কেন আসি, কেন হাসি,
      কেন আঁখিজলে ভাসি,
কার কথা বলে যাই, কার গান গাহি রে--
      অর্থ কিছুই তার নাহি রে।
ওরে মন, আয় তুই সাজ ফেলে আয়,
      মিছে কী করিস নাট-বেদীতে।
বুঝিতে চাহিস যদি বাহিরেতে আয়,
      খেলা ছেড়ে আয় খেলা দেখিতে।
             ওই দেখ্‌ নাটশালা
             পরিয়াছে দীপমালা,
সকল রহস্য তুই চাস যদি ভেদিতে
      নিজে না ফিরিলে নাট-বেদীতে।
নেমে এসে দূরে এসে দাঁড়াবি যখন--
      দেখিবি কেবল, নাহি খুঁজিবি,
এই হাসি-রোদনের মহানাটকের
             অর্থ তখন কিছু বুঝিবি।
                   একের সহিত একে
                   মিলাইয়া নিবি দেখে,
বুঝে নিবি, বিধাতার সাথে নাহি  যুঝিবি--
      দেখিবি কেবল, নাহি খুঁজিবি।