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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 14. 28 June 1972

Bangladesh

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Bangladesh

I Shall Return Again I shall return again to the shores of this river where the paddy dries like a winding staircase: I shall return to this Bengal of mine. Not as a man perhaps - but as a white kite or a singing bird or a crow at dawn, when the festival of rice is observed in this land. Some day I shall return again with the wandering mist to this jackfruit shade. Perhaps I shall be a swan for the little girl with anklets adorning her red feet and I shall pass my days in the waters of the river fragrant with shrubs: I shall come again with love to these rivers and fields, to this land of Bengal, to its sorrowful green shores washed by the waves of the Jalangi river. Perhaps you shall see the sudarshan whirling in the evening breeze or you may hear an owl calling from the branch of the silkcotton tree perhaps a child shall fling a fistful of paddy on the grass- of your courtyard or a boy shall sail a boat with a torn white sail down the muddy water of the Rupsha river; the red clouds shall swim homewards in the dark as a white crane will watch silently: amidst all this you shall find me in Bengal. Jibanananda Das FROM RUPASHI BANGLA

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