Canto 7Karma
Book 3. Part Three - Baroda and Bengal Circa 1900 – 1909
Poems from Ahana and Other Poems
Revelation
Someone leaping from the rocks
Past me ran with wind-blown locks
5Like a startled bright surmise
Visible to mortal eyes, —
Just a cheek of frightened rose
That with sudden beauty glows,
Just a footstep like the wind
10And a hurried glance behind,
And then nothing, — as a thought
Escapes the mind ere it is caught.
Someone of the heavenly rout
From behind the veil ran out.
15Karma
(Radha’s Complaint)
Love, but my words are vain as air!
In my sweet joyous youth, a heart untried,
Thou tookst me in Love’s sudden snare,
20Thou wouldst not let me in my home abide.
And now I have nought else to try,
But I will make my soul one strong desire
And into Ocean leaping die:
So shall my heart be cooled of all its fire.
25Die and be born to life again
As Nanda’s son, the joy of Braja’s girls,
And I will make thee Radha then,
A laughing child’s face set with lovely curls.