Mira says: Dark One,
I've waited---
it's time to take my songs
into the street.

I will fasten the bells of his love to my feet
And dance in front of Girdhar.
Dancing and dancing I will please his eyes;
My love is an ancient one.
My love is the only truth.

I do not care about social norms
Nor do I keep my family's honour.
I cannot forget, even for a moment,
The beauty of my lover.

I am dyed in Hari's colour

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by Mirabai

Mirabai:

QUOTE

My love is the only truth.

Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain

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1867
By Matthew Arnold
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/dover.html

that matthew arnold certainly belongs in this thread!!! I have always thought it was about krishna you know...

maybe you could post a link to the full poem. I have an "operatic" type audio w/ music by samuel barber... i will try to f ind it online and point to the link

Here Arnold rather startlingly reverses the conventional meditations of the time on the solace of faith in the face of loss of love or beloved. (BK).

The poem is said to be about how nothing has meaning anymore, not even religion (sea of faith), so all that we have left is being true to love.