[2] This essay included two songs of Gagan – "Ami Kothai Pabo Tare" and "(O Mon) Asar Mayai Vule Robe".
I am listless for that moonrise of beauty, which is to light my life, which I long to see in the fullness of vision in gladness of heart.
Its words are so simple that it makes me hesitate to render them in a foreign tongue, and set them forward for critical observation.
Besides, the best part of a song is missed when the tune is absent; for thereby its movement and its colour are lost, and it becomes like a butterfly whose wings have been plucked.
He was almost illiterate; and the ideas he received from his Baul teacher found no distraction from the self-consciousness of the modern age.
And it is a sect, almost exclusively confined to that lower floor of society, where the light of modern education hardly finds an entrance, while wealth and respectability shun its utter indigence.