Anandamath (Aurobindo)

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Anandamath (1882)
by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, translated by Sri Aurobindo and Barindra Kumar Ghosh

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Translation published in 1909.

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

O plains, O hills, O rivers of sweet Bengal,
O land of love and flowers, the spring-bird's call
And southern wind are sweet among your trees:
Your poet's words are sweeter far than these.
Your heart was this man's heart. Subtly he knew
The beauty and divinity in you.
His nature kingly was and as a god
In large serenity and light he trod
His daily way, yet beauty, like soft flowers
Wreathing a hero's sword, ruled all his hours.
Thus moving in these iron times and drear,
Barren of bliss and robbed of golden cheer,
He sowed the desert with ruddy-hearted rose,
The sweetest voice that ever spoke in prose.

Sri Aurobindo

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Anandamath (Aurobindo)

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