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A song by Kazi Nazrul Islam

You are beautiful, so I look at you daring, Is that my crime? Looking at the moon Chokorini* calls her crying But the moon does not feel wrong in it. I keep on watching the flowers that blossom, But flowers do not take it misfit. The Chatokini** sheds tears longing for the cloud, But for that the cloud does not lodge any protest. Te sunflower knows it well That the sun will not reach her But she is happy to look at her god. At your charming appearance my eyes are set, O beautiful! Let me cherish my desire in full. *Chokorini- a kind of bird celebrated in poetry as longing for and highly enjoying moonbeam. ** Chatokini-The Swallow i.e. a kind of bird renowned in poetic imagination as taking no other drink except rain-water and which being always thirsty longs very much for the rains. Translated by M. Mizanur Rahman