<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=372464" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Jyothi Basu – A Loving Tribute: The ‘Lamp’ is dead: Its light will always stay!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ‘Lamp’ that lit the homes of myriad souls, <br>Who toiled, tilled, slogged as Indians proud, galore, <br>And stayed as guiding light achieving goals, <br>Has lost its oil and wick, and burns no more! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It stood as beacon for numerous souls, <br>Who flocked to him for wisdom that they sought, <br>And always got much more than they had thought; <br>The Lamp is gone but light it shone will stay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The doyen worked his way uphill in life; <br>He stood beside all workers in their strife; <br>He was a perfect man, so rarely found, <br>He could have become mountain but stayed mound! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Hats off’ to leaders great who simple stay, <br>And lead unselfishly for others, way; <br>Who hold on party-men a trance-like sway, <br>Who lived for good principles every day! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Lamp had burned for others sake for long; <br>Its light remains in hearts of myriad souls; <br>His glorious work will stay alive by song; <br>The man of mettle, heart of steel hadn’t holes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No wonder, leaders praise him all sky-high! <br>His honest national service cannot die; <br>He left too big a void to be filled nigh; <br>His love for India is too great to vie! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘God grant his soul eternal rest’, we pray! <br>May others follow his footsteps and way; <br>‘His example was golden’, people say; <br>He shines in hearts of many souls each day! <br>The ‘lamp’ is dead: Its light will always stay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dedicated in loving memory of the demised soul! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 1-17-2010</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=372464" data-title="To Jyothi Basu – A Loving Tribute: The ‘Lamp’ is dead: Its light will always stay! de John Celes" data-description="The ‘Lamp’ that lit the homes of myriad souls, Who toiled, tilled, slogged as Indians proud, galore, And stayed as guiding light achieving goals, Has lost its oil and wick, and burns no more! It stood as beacon for numerous souls, Who fl..."></div> </div> </div>

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