Compiled by london swaminathan

Date: 16 March 2016

Post No. 2637

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An Adieu

India, farewell! I shall not see again

Thy shining shores, thy peoples of the sun

Gentle, soft mannered, by a kind word won

To such quick kindness! O’er the Arab main

Our flying flag streams back; and backwards stream

My thoughts to those fair open fields I love,

City and village, maidan, jungle, grove,

The temples and rivers! Must it seem

Too great for one man’s heart to say it holds

So many many Indian sisters dear,

So many unknown brothers? That it folds

Lakhs of true friends parting? Nay! But there

Lingers my heart, leave-taking; and it roves

From hut to hut whispering “he knows and loves!”

Good-bye! Good-night! Sweet may your slumbers be,

Gunga! And Kasi! And Saraswati!

-Edwin Arnold

March 8, 1886

From his book India Revisited (Published in1886)

On the last page of the book he says:

“I leave my heart behind me in leaving these Indian peoples, who have taught me, as I have wandered among them, that manners more noble and gentle, learning more modest and profound, loyalty more sincere, refinement more natural, and sweeter simplicities of life, and love, and duty exist in the length and breadth of British Asia than even I had gathered from my old experiences, before India was “revisited.”

THE END (page 324)

EdwinArnold 1832 – 1904 (English Poet, Journalist and author of many books)

His famous books (poetical works) are:

The Light of Asia, Indian Poetry, Pearls of the Faith, Indian Idylls,The Secret of Death, The Song Celestial (Bhagavad Gita)

-subham-