Tumi Kemon Kore Gaan Karo He Guni (How Beautifully You Sing)

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Bengali Version
How beautifully You sing, My Lord!
Silently, secretly I listen to
your extraordinary song about eternity
in wonder, in pride.
Morning is your song and its lustre
makes the earth splendid
The motion of your music pulsates the air
like the heavy pounding of deep impenetrable waves,
causing the ocean to billow so against shore,
causing my heart to beat so,
Your music journeys from high,
unstopped, unbaled like Ganga's torrent and
causes my bounded blood vessels
to burst open, to loose from
I long to sing with you,
but I don't have the voice, nor the words
I long to talk with you,
but I don't have the poem within me to match your song
My life-breath wails in longing, My Lord,
as I lie defeated
I have become a prisoner to your beautiful song.

(This translation was contributed by Gayatri Devi kpillai@post.cis.smu.edu )
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