SUR SARANG

CANTO I
1
There is darkening in sky,
O see there clouds are rising
Soon it’ld be raining hard
Drive to pastures flocks thy
Leave low-lands debounch on plains
Carry with yu season’s supply
O sit not there dour and dry
Despairing in grace of God.
2
Today too from northward
Cuckoo is giving spring’s calls
Farmers are preparing ploughs
Folks are happy on the rain-falls;
HE has donned His over-alls
O today too of His benediction.
3
O showers! Had you but learned
To rain down like my eyes
Day and night from skies,
O you’ad never stopped dribbling.
4
Comes down upon His lover
Today HE in sheets and turrents;
Away ye famine-pedlar!
The Rain has shown His face to us.
CANTO II
1
The rains ad the Love dispense
In on one and the same way
When they would dress to come
Messenger-clouds would first send away;
O I’ld as cloud ever on, stay
Were HE to come illuming my horizons.
CANTO III
O comes HE illuming my horizons,
My Love like as monsoon rains;
Wished who for all lives on ones
HE shall pour down in profusion.
CANTO IV
1
Again HE has sky set over us,
For re-sending His rainy season;
Lighting are flashing about
See the clouds in every direction;;
Some are hurring to Istanbul
Some haste to the western horizon;
Some do hie to China
And some to Samarkand make the run;
Some are racing out to Rome,
Some to Kabul Qandhar take the turn;
Some to Delhi, some to Deccan;
Some to Girnar bear the burden;
Some are wrestling over Jesalmir
And betow on Bekanir the divin donation;
Some have soaked all of Buj
And some descend to the Dut region;
Some push on, out to Umerkot
Some burst upon Walhar basin;
O God! Bring ever on Sindh
Ever-abudance all foison;
O Thou All-Love, All-Benison!
Prosper all the countries of world.