For The Magic-Man -- trying to translate you

This is a song by Rabindranath Tagore.He is the God of Bengali poetry and he is my dadamoshai (grandpa)! He is a poet of all seasons, all reasons, all emotions and all tales. this song is playing in my heart and this post is dedicated to the angel of poetry. it is difficult, perhaps impossible to transliterate his song. but for my foreign readers, i will try. dadamoshai, tumi bhari dustu. bujhi ba kono golpoi nei ja tomar ojana, kono onubhuti nei,ja tumi jano na.

sei bhalo sei bhalo,
amare na hoy na jano,
sei bhalo sei bhalo
durey giye noy dukkho debe
kache kano laaje lajano?

(its better this way,

that you know me not.

if you go far away, i shall weep

but why come near and make me blush so deep?)

mor basante legeche to sur
benu bono chhaya, hoeche modhur,
thak na emoni gondhe bidhur,
milono kunjo sajano,
sei bhalo sei bhalo,
amare nahoy na jano,
sei bhalo sei bhalo

(music has coloured my spring,

the flute and the forest shades have sweetened,

let it remain so in mellowed fragrance,

bower of the lover's union so decorated.

its better this way

that you know me not.

its better this way)

gopone dekhechi
tomar byakul noyone bhaber khela
utolo anchol elokhelo chul dekhechi jhorero bela
gopone dekhechi tomar,
tomate amate hoyni j kotha
morme amar,ache se barota, na bola bani
na bola banir niye akulota
amar bashiti bajano

(secretly i have seen

the play of emotions in your anxious eyes,

the restless veil, ruffled hair i have seen in the stormy noon,

secretly i have seen yours,

we havent spoken words to each other,

in my heart, remains the message, the unuttered lines,

with the restless anxiety of those unuttered lines

i play my flute.)

sei bhalo sei bhalo
amare nahoy na jano
durey gie nahoy dukkho debe
kache kano laaje lajano,
sei bhalo sei bhalo,
amare nahoy na jano
sei bhalo sei bhalo

(its better this way,

that you dont know me.

if you go far away, i shall weep

but why come near and make me blush so deep?

its better this way,

that you know me not,

its better this way)