This deep yet unfilled night Has rites; A worship, a dance, and speech; A passion play of leaves and light, Singing and sounding Without noise, without life, Of its own immense intangibility, "Trance-bedimmed" and silence-bright.
Between the rose garden And the sunset, I sought my beloved.
Between the dawn's blush And night's star; Between dream's arm and Sleep's embrace,
I sought my beloved, Between the rose garden and the sunset.
The mountain peaks, a halted army, Helmeted with gold and green; The sea before them a veil of pink That the moon casts away, To wear the gold-violet robe of mist Before entering the Shrine of night.
Coral-music, the sunset writes on the scroll of the sea; Gold strings are strung in the harp of the sky; Cloud-fingers, playing on them, Make noiseless gossamer-melody; As the amber-draped moon-maid Trips from the sea to the Heavens Dancing the measure of evening worship.
The moon spreads a rainbow fan With her beams, and the cloud Puts on it one star . . . A song within a dream.
What moon-maid after dance, On what balcony standing, Cools her face with this fan, The star holding a mirror to her eyes?
The sun waters the pastures of heaven With warm rains of light;
For the golden-lambkins to graze . . The star-flocks of night.
Ah, sleep-ravished eyes Dream of a paradise, That close to our heart lies, Sleep-ravished eyes.
Peace and pleasure, Their music and measure; Love and love's treasure, Oh, peace in pleasure!
Eyes dark and deep; All dreams they keep In their labyrinths of sleep; Oh, eyes dark, deep!
As the breeze falls asleep, The brush of sunset Draws the rosy cloud-scape On the canvas of the sky; The blue hills in repose Listen to the pearl lullaby of the mist.
A song of dimming light, this, And dance of shadows with silver feet, For the joy of one shy star-maid Seeking hiding from the moon Behind the emerald screen of the sea.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji was an Indian-American writer active in the first half of the twentieth century, known for both prose and poetry in English. His poetry collections include Sandhya, Songs of Twilight (1917) and Rajani, Songs of the Night (1922). His verse often explores themes of nature, spirituality, and the intersection of Eastern and Western thought. He employed lyrical and meditative imagery drawn from Indian landscapes and religious traditions. Mukerji's work reflects the experience of the Indian diaspora and an attempt to bridge cultural divides through literary expression. He is also recognized for his children's books, notably winning the Newbery Medal in 1928 for Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon. His poetry, though less prominent than his prose, contributed to the early corpus of Indian writing in English. Mukerji's writings were among the first by an author of Indian origin to gain significant attention in the United States. He remains a notable figure in the history of cross-cultural literature.
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