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- MOHINI CHATTERJEE
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- I ASKED if I should pray.
- But the Brahmin said,
- "pray for nothing, say
- Every night in bed,
- ""I have been a king,
- I have been a slave,
- Nor is there anything.
- Fool, rascal, knave,
- That I have not been,
- And yet upon my breast
- A myriad heads have lain.'''
- That he might Set at rest
- A boy's turbulent days
- Mohini Chatterjee
- Spoke these, or words like these,
- I add in commentary,
- "Old lovers yet may have
- All that time denied --
- Grave is heaped on grave
- That they be satisfied --
- Over the blackened earth
- The old troops parade,
- Birth is heaped on Birth
- That such cannonade
- May thunder time away,
- Birth-hour and death-hour meet,
- Or, as great sages say,
- Men dance on deathless feet.' 0084
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