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PROFULLA RANJAN DAS.
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Yet shall we sigh and raise the mournful wail,
Because our Beauty now has ceased to be!
Nay, tho' to-day our youth and glory pale,
What is to-day to all Eternity!
For in fresh raptures of this radiant earth
Dead roses come again to crimson birth!

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