Shanti

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Title:     Shanti
Author: Dhan Gopal Mukerji [More Titles by Mukerji]

SHANTI[1]

Sleep shadows, sleep light;
Sleep tune, sleep speech;
Sleep night, sleep day;
Sleep children in the cradle of rest.

Dream stars, dream moon;
Dream sea; dream O, sun;
Dream rainbow, dream storm;
Dream rain, O, milk from Heaven's breast.

Rest ye feet, rest ye hands;
Rest bleeding hours of even;
Rest O, heart torn and burnt,
Rest my fancies, day is done.

Sleep night, sleep with star-eyes closed;
Sleep sorrow in death's silent repose;
Sleep O, Soul, be it twilight or morn;
Sleep thou too, O, sleep, heedless of moon and sun.

[Footnote 1: Shanti is the Sanskrit for "Peace."]

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji's poem: Shanti

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