'In memorium Saroj') is a long elegiacal poem in Hindi written by Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.
[2] David Rubin stated that Nirala's elegy for his daughter introduced a new element of unsparingly direct speech.
It combined an intensely personal tone with objective control, merging the rhythmic flexibility of free verse with the solemnity of classical meter.
[3] Nirala, while depicting Saroj on her wedding day, portrays her as a vibrant and poetic entity that evokes memories of his late wife, Manohara Devi.
देखा मैंने, वह मूर्ति-धीति मेरे वसंत की प्रथम गीति— शृंगार, रहा जो निराकार रस कविता में उच्छ्वसित-धार गाया स्वर्गीया-प्रिया-संग भरता प्राणों में राग-रंग Dekhā maine, vah mūrti-dhīti mere vasant kī pratham gīti— śṛṅgār, rahā jo nirākār ras kavitā meṃ ucchvasit-dhār gāyā svargīyā-priyā-saṅg bhartā prāṇoṃ meṃ rāg-raṅg In you, I saw the courage, the first song of my own spring, that love without a physical form, the feeling I'd expressed in my poems and once shared with my lost darling, now filling my senses with passionate joy.