Black Marigolds (Chaurapanchasika) · 1919
36
Translated by E. Powys Mathers (Black Marigolds, 1919)
Even now
I mind asking: Where love and how love Rati's priestesses?
You can tell me of their washings at moon-down
And if that warm basin have silver borders.
Is it so that when they comb their hair
Their fingers, being purple-stained, show
Like coral branches in the black sea of their hair?
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