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In The Black Out - Jibanananda Das

Once to the stars - once to the fields I cast my winkless eyes. The scent of paddy disappeared from life when who knows; Like the meadows laden with haystacks here and there Quietly; he feels dozy. "What will happen if the stars glow - glow - glow and dim - and then dim forever? " Cautioned, he wakes up again. With straw scattered all over it feels sleepy, Sleep engulfs. The evening sky is studded with stars - this sky of night; Here in the Falgoon shadow I sprawl on the turf of grass; A gift of death right here, and these grasses will cling onto my body; A galaxy of stars will forever remain close by. Who sneezed there? - must be Hamid's one-eyed moribund horse! Enough he has worked, all day pulling the cart Now in the moonlight he is bent upon eating grass - no more tasks. As if nothing hurts in this world - "Why then I think of death? " The sky afar echoes, "Wh
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