সোনায় রাঙায় মাখামাখি,
রঙের বাঁধন কে দেয় রাখি
      পথিক রবির স্বপন ঘিরে।
পেরোয় যখন তিমিরনদী
তখন সে রঙ মিলায় যদি
      প্রভাতে পায় আবার ফিরে।
অস্ত-উদয়-রথে-রথে
যাওয়া-আসার পথে পথে
      দেয় সে আপন আলো ঢালি।
পায় সে ফিরে মেঘের কোণে,
পায় ফাগুনের পারুলবনে
      প্রতিদানের রঙের ডালি।

GIVE ME THE supreme courage of love, this is my prayer - the courage to speak, to do, to suffer at thy will, to leave all things or be left alone. Strengthen me on errands of danger, honour me with pain, and help me climb to that difficult mood which sacrifices daily to thee.
Give me the supreme confidence of love, this is my prayer - the confidence that belongs to life in death, to victory in defeat, to the power hidden in frailest beauty, to that dignity in pain which accepts hurt but disdains to return it.

YOUR DAYS WILL be full of cares, if you must give me your heart. My house by the cross-roads has its doors open and my mind is absent,-for I sing.
I shall never be made to answer for it, if you must give me your heart. If I pledge my word to you in tunes now, and am too much in earnest to keep it when music is silent, you must forgive me; for the law laid in May is best broken in December.
Do not always keep remembering it, if you must give me your heart. When your eyes sing with love, and your voice ripples with laughter, my answers to your questions will be wild, and not miserly accurate in facts,- they are to be believed for ever and then forgotten for good.