Beyond Land and Time

A Strange Darkness

(Ôdbhut Āndhār Єk Eshєchє Є Prithibite Āj)

Translated by Marian Maddern

A strange darkness has now come into the world.

Those who are blind, today see best of all;

those in whose hearts is no love, warmth, nor stir of pity—

the world cannot move without their counsel.

Those who still have faith in mankind,

those to whom, even now, order and art,

truth, or endeavour, seem not unnatural—

jackals and vultures prey on their hearts.