<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541986" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Canticle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like darkness descends an old raven<br>A fog obscures both banks<br> of the girl's eyes<br>Ah what a prolonged sleep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A red-eyed pigeon on the cornice sits<br>September nineteenth a flimsy telegram<br>Ah what a prolonged sleep</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The storm dies down<br> on the tired mast<br> The storm uncoils<br> its eight tentacles</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a huge dance-hall looms into sight<br>And a red-eyed pigeon on the cornice sits<br> what’s the news now<br>Ah what a prolonged sleep</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The storm dies down<br> on the dream book of Jung<br> The storm drops dead<br> from anaemia</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But who will make that girl understand but this<br>There’s little profit in searching for the one<br>That is by now wood-dead from fasting an Adam’s lifetime<br>Ah what a prolonged sleep<br>Ah what a prolonged sleep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Translated from Bangla by the poet)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Subrata+Augustine+Gomes">Subrata Augustine Gomes</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=541986" data-title="A Canticle de Subrata Augustine Gomes" data-description="Like darkness descends an old raven A fog obscures both banks of the girl's eyes Ah what a prolonged sleep A red-eyed pigeon on the cornice sits September nineteenth a flimsy telegram Ah what a prolonged sleep The storm dies down on the tire..."></div> </div> </div>

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