Lekhny composition -29-May-2023

Manisha Bharti

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Lekhny composition -29-May-2023

There's a colleen fair as May.

For a year and for a day. I've sought by every way her heart to gain But I've tried with ceaseless sigh, yet tried in vain.

There's no art of tongue or eye Fond youths with maidens try.

If to France or far-off Spain

To see her face again the sea I'd brave. And if 'tis Heaven's decree

She'd cross the watery main, That mine she may not be. May the Son of Mary me in mercy save!

To whom I've given true love. Do not ever thus reprove my constancy.

O thou blooming milk-white dove, There are maidens would be mine. If my heart would but incline to turn from thee.

With wealth in hand and kine.

But a kiss with welcome bland.

And a touch of thy dear hand Are all that I demand, wouldst thou not spurn:

For if not mine, dear girl, O Snowy-Breasted Pearl!

May I never from the fair with life return!