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Like a huge Python winding round and round	A
The rugged trunk indented deep with scars	B
Up to its very summit near the stars	B
A creeper climbs in whose embraces bound	A
No other tree could live But gallantly	C
The giant wears the scarf and flowers are hung	D
In crimson clusters all the boughs among	D
Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee	C
And oft at nights the garden overflows	E
With one sweet song that seems to have no close	F
Sung darkling from our tree while men repose	E
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When first my casement is wide open thrown	G
At dawn my eyes delighted on it rest	H
Sometimes and most in winter on its crest	H
A grey baboon sits statue like alone	G
Watching the sunrise while on lower boughs	I
His puny offspring leap about and play	J
And far and near kokilas hail the day	J
And to their pastures wend our sleepy cows	I
And in the shadow on the broad tank cast	K
By that hoar tree so beautiful and vast	K
The water lilies spring like snow enmassed	K
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But not because of its magnificence	I
Dear is the Casuarina to my soul	L
Beneath it we have played though years may roll	L
O sweet companions loved with love intense	I
For your sakes shall the tree be ever dear	M
Blent with your images it shall arise	I
In memory till the hot tears blind mine eyes	I
What is that dirge like murmur that I hear	N
Like the sea breaking on a shingle beach	O
It is the tree's lament an eerie speech	O
That haply to the unknown land may reach	O
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Unknown yet well known to the eye of faith	P
Ah I have heard that wail far far away	J
In distant lands by many a sheltered bay	J
When slumbered in his cave the water wraith	P
And the waves gently kissed the classic shore	Q
Of France or Italy beneath the moon	R
When earth lay tranc d in a dreamless swoon	R
And every time the music rose before	Q
Mine inner vision rose a form sublime	S
Thy form O Tree as in my happy prime	S
I saw thee in my own loved native clime	S
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Therefore I fain would consecrate a lay	J
Unto thy honour Tree beloved of those	I
Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose	I
Dearer than life to me alas were they	J
Mayst thou be numbered when my days are done	T
With deathless trees like those in Borrowdale	J
Under whose awful branches lingered pale	J
Fear trembling Hope and Death the skeleton	T
And Time the shadow and though weak the verse	I
That would thy beauty fain oh fain rehearse	I
May Love defend thee from Oblivion's curse	I

Toru Dutt

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