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Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan
Dutt
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The marriage over to declare!
And now to forest-shades where dwell
The hermits, wend the wedded pair.
The doors of every house are hung
With gay festoons of leaves and flowers;
And blazing banners broad are flung,
And trumpets blown from castle towers!
Slow the procession makes its ground
Along the crowded city street:
And blessings in a storm of sound
At every step the couple greet.
Past all the houses, past the wall,
Past gardens gay, and hedgerows trim,
Past fields, where sinuous brooklets small
With molten silver to the brim
Glance in the sun's expiring light,
Past frowning hills, past pastures wild,
At last arises on the sight,
Foliage on foliage densely piled,
[14] The woods primeval, where reside
The holy hermits;—henceforth here
Must live the fair and gentle bride:
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Solo lo que podría haber sido
"Absurd may be the tale i tell,
Ill-suited to the marching times,
I loved the lips from which it fell,
So let it stand among my rhymes"
I did feel some of it was generic, but it's definitely great work for such a young writer. Terrible what happened to her.
Synopsis:
Divided into nine parts, followed by some miscellaneous poems, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan is an unfinished volume of original poems written by Toru Dutt in English. It contains a total of sixteen poems, some of which are Sanskrit translations of ancient Indian myths and le