SUR DAHAR

CANTO I
1
Tell me something O thorn
Of those herdsmen who lived in here;
O without them, you mere
How pass these days, and how these nights.?
2
When HE fiexed His loving hook
Very firmly in my gills;
O HE did not then back, look
And came again to pull me out of water;
3
When HE looked me very strongly
Thus by His distant bait;
O HE did not kill me instantly
But went on lengthening livne of woes;
CANTO II
1
As large is Thy name O Lord!
So large is my hope in thy merc;
And o Thy grace O Creator of all!
There’s no any border or boundry
O thy name ever so inly,
Has abided in my heart, All-Beneficien-One;
2
O Sire! Thy power we’ave seen
In many a wondrous way;
Leavesyou drown in water
And stones you-lift and float away;
Ah, were You to come to this may,
What greatly honoured’ll be this lowly girl.
4
As GREAT IS Thy name, O Lord!
So Great a grace I pray;
Without pillar without post
Thou art strut, thou art stay;
What I unto you say
You know everyting about me.
CANTO III
1
Wake up thou O sleeping one!
Sleep not whole this life away;
Fortune shall not come your way
Of heavely Lords, O while you sleep.
2
Some while sleep, yet all while wake
Make not sleep the beauty’s nest;
This’s place of noon-tide rest
What you think to be native home.
3
Avail you won’t , this thy sleep
Get up and recollect the God;
Ah then you’ld greatly weep
When this night shall pass away.
4
What is atmorning fallen on
O deem not it as dew O men!
The night has wept tears upon
The sleeping ones, O the woe-be-gone ones.
5
O that HE lift not His arm away
Nor lift off the night its vail
Till I win to me, my Non-Pareil
Thus hidden away from all the world
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The grief-stricken wear gay faces
And laugh here much, the mis-gotten;
Ah they’ave all those forgotten,
The works for which they were sent.
7
Fallen they’ave for bubbling froth
And tasted not have the milk below;
For sake of world, they God forgo
So by Him are forsaken too.
CANTO IV
1
Forgetting yourworldy flocks
How could you sit in complacence?
O do not this un-remembrance
Undo you of kith and kin?
2
Go up they flying in flocks
Leave not their love of clan;
Perceive, how more than man
Birds cherish love for them.
3
Fate has brought them down here
Ele there home was up on hills;
‘Tis not fault of any there
the God provides food to all.
4
The crane did not know the arrow
What was in the hunters, heart;
O it was that wicked art
That sundered the stock of one race.
5
O that you die, die bird-hunter!
And lie ruined your trap and lay;
That you coming only yesterday
Brought this interval between ages.
6
Awaken O ye, high lander!
And sleep not ye, o low lander!
Look out there the gangters
Stands how and threatens you!
7
Bandit and his mount are both dead
O blessed be the Lord
Removed HE from ove the land
The devil and his dread;
Women rejoice-O now tread
Here only shepherds and their flocks
8
They would implore him, and cry
O that he spare their flocks;
Then raise their cries to sky,
O that, IT bring down ruin upon him
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She with great pains and woes
Had collected these flocks, the goat-herd;
O he these, came and plundered
And had taken away with him.
10
There were great and many lords
HE’s but of other blessings
Saved by Him, were the earthlings
Came who but within His fold!
11
Of we the lowly earthlings
O HE has taken upon the burden;
All-love can’t do other things
Other faiths only exploited us.
12
O Lord-though an ugly earthling
Yet I am but maid of thine;
Protect this cottage of mine
Which I’ave built here by your shelter!
13
Building and building-these earthlings
Yet won’t think of these going away;
So came suddenly, in their way
The plunderer, and carried them off!
14
All thus building and building vanished
Quiting these places, the earthlings;
O see their castles and things
Are lying in earth, rottening!
15
For a while a sparkling groom
But all while a skeleton in earthy bowere;
O how high this sandy tower
You’ll be building, building and building?