Canto 20Vision
Book 3. Part Three - Baroda and Bengal Circa 1900 – 1909
Poems from Manuscripts
Vision
Who art thou that roamest
Over mountains dim
5In the haunts of evening,
Sister of the gleam!
Whiter than the jasmines,
Roses dream of thee;
Softly with the violets
10How thine eyes agree!
As thy raven tresses
Night is not so black,
From thy moonbright shoulders
Floating dimly back.
15Feet upon the hilltops,
Lilies of delight,
With their far-off radiance
Tinge the evening bright.
In the vesper calmness
20Lightly like a dove,
With thy careless eyelids
Confident of love,
As of old thou comest
Down the mountains far,
25Smiling from what gardens,
Glowing from what star?
Racing from the hilltops
Like a brilliant stream,
Burning in the valleys
30Marble-bright of limb,