Diner Sheshey Ghumer Deshey - Rabindrasangeet
Posted by Nerdyy
Happy Bijaya Dashami - Durga bids us all farewell and promised to be back next year :D. This song was always my favorite Rabindrasangeet - apparently my mom used to sing this to me when I was a baby - so that might have something to do with that. This song is of a strong philosophical bend, with thoughts of death and departure. All in all a great song :D
The veiled shadow of the day embraces the drawing night
Enthralling my heart
The illusory golden shore of the misty further bank
Sing the closing song.
Heads down, merriment over, those at the departing time
Do not turn around on their journey back.
Drawn by the ebb tide I�ll join them leaving this abode -
As evening draws, day passes by.
Oh! come
To take me away
At the day's end, by the last boat.
By the evening tide from the further bank
By the dwindling light
Has a boat left for me?
With the setting sun, close to the shore by the shade of the dense
wood
Like a shadow I see them row
Should I hail, would he reply?
Is there someone obliging so?
Oh! come
To take me away
At the day's end, by the last boat.
Those leaving for home, have long gone
Those left for the shore, have long reached
Neither at shore nor at home, the one in between
Who shall take him away when the dusk falls?
No flowers to offer, crops failed
He laughs at his fate
For him the daylight is over and the night doesn't shine
He's the one alone sitting by the bank.
Oh! come
To take me away
At the day's end, by the last boat.
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