On the Nature of Love :I see that instant I fall in love with by Rabinder Nath Tagore, Translated from Bengali by Ketaki Kushari Dyson From Chaitali ( १८९६)
The night is black and the forest has no end;
a million people thread it in a million ways.
We have trysts to keep in the darkness,
but where or with whom- of that we are unaware.
But we have this faith- that a lifetime's blisswill
appear any minute, with a smile upon its lips.
Scents, touches, sounds, snatches of songs brush us,
pass us, give us delightful shocks.
Then peradventure there's a flash of lightning:
whomever I see that instant I fall in love with.
I call that person and cry:
'This life is blest! For your sake such miles have I traversed!'
All those others who come close and
moved off in the darkness - I dont know if they exist or not.
From Chaitali (1896), the Web:http://www.4to40.com/poems/index.asp?id=221