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Title: Sandhya
Songs of Twilight

Author: Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Release Date: October 2, 2007 [eBook #22848]

Language: English

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SANDHYA

Songs of Twilight

by

DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI

Author of "Layla-Majnu"
and "Rajani"

Nineteen Seventeen
Paul Elder and Company
San Francisco

Copyright, 1917
by Paul Elder and Company
San Francisco

TO

MRS. HANCOCK BANNING

MRS. WILLIAM CLARK, JR.

_FOREWORD_

_Like "Rajani" [perhaps more than], "Sandhya" is a slender rill that
has drawn its music from my Bengali which has told upon its English
structure. This and many other faults of these poems are due to their
unyielding adherence to spontaneity._

_"Sandhya" came then, as "Rajani" in its own way through the bed of my
Bengali reflecting its sound and sense, and trying to echo back its
music that descends on all with the fading twilight._

DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI.

_N. B._--_Since some of these poems were born without, and defy
titles, I have refrained from forcing any on them._

CONTENTS

POEM
SYMBOLISM 1
SOURCE OF SINGING 2
"WITH PURPLE SHADOWS THE MIST MEASURES THE INFINITE SEA" 3
"O, OLD! O, NEW!" 4
"THE FAR AWAY CALLED HER" 5
LASSITUDE 6
"AH! PALE, COOL LIPS THAT BURN" 7
FORLORN 8
AFTER A BENGALI SONG 9
MOONRISE 10
AT VENTURA, CALIFORNIA