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Timeline (1718? - 1775?)

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English version by
Leonard Nathan and Clinton Seely

Original Language
Bengali

So I say: Mind, donÕt you sleep

Themes

Dawn

Death

Sound

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	Devoted to the Goddess : The Life and Work of Ramprasad, by Malcolm Mclean
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	Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Ramprasad Sen - Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess, Translated by Leonard Nathan / Clinton Seely
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So I say: Mind, don't you sleep
Or Time is going to get in and steal from you.

You hold on to the sword of Kali's name.
The shield of Tara's name.

Can Death overwhelm you?
Sound Kali's name on a horn and sound it loud.

Chant “Durga, Durga,”
Until you bring the dawn around.

If She won't save you in this Dark Age --.
But how many great sinners have been saved!

Is Ramprasad then
So unsalvageable a rogue?

-- from Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair: Ramprasad Sen - Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess, Translated by Leonard Nathan / Clinton Seely

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