Dutt, Romesh Chunder: The literature of Bengal: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta, 1877)

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<- Friend ! ah ! who hath named that name ?

Through my ( ar it steals,

My heart it thrills,
My life and soul it doth inflame !

Ah who shall tell,

What sweet doth dwell
In that beloved strain !

I name that name,

My soul's all flame ! e ,

Oh ! will he come again ?

Ia justice to the poet we are bound to confess, that
we have spoilt the poem iu translating, for tha 5?eling in
the original is so deep, so intense, that no translation
pvruu Jaly carl adequately express it in Euglish. , What we
would point out to our readers, however, is the total
want of figures or similes, a total ignoring as it were of
all attempts at ornamentation. The poet strongly feels
his subject and records' it pathetically without any em-
bellishments, with<^it any attempts at adornment.
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