Beyond Land and Time

Evening

(Rupôshi Bānglā 60: Shôndhā Hôy—Cari Dikє Mridu Nirôbotā)

Translated by Marian Maddern

Evening—peaceful silence all around;

a starling quietly carries a straw away,

a bullock-cart drifts slowly down the path,

the yard is filled with mounds of golden hay.

From the forest, the call of all earth’s turtle-doves;

all earth’s beauty in this grass is held;

in our two hearts is all earth’s love;

this sky spreads, as peace, encircling the world.