Subhadra–A

SUBHADRA! A Threnody

BY T. P. KAILASAM.

I’ll never never see my boy again!
I’ll never kiss his bonny face again!

A thunderbolt, he spann’d the battle-plain

And cleft the whirling phalanx right in twain!
But my own boy?–I’ll never see again!

I’ll never never see my boy again!
I’ll ne’er caress, his winsome eyes again!
I heard my son’s triumphant battle-shout,
I saw his teeming foemen put to rout!
But my own boy?–I’ll never see again!

I’ll never never see my boy again!
I’ll never hear his gurgling laugh again!
I heard his vanquish’d foremen’s dying cries,
I saw a blinding blaze ascend the skies!
But my own boy?–I’1l never see again!

I’ll never never see my boy again!
I’ll never crush him to my breasts again!
That dazzling shaft on high of purple hue
His death-defying soul it was, I knew!
And knew–I’d never see my boy again!

My blinding tears, my sobs of soul in pain,
My wails of broken heart,–are all in vain!
Nor all my piteous prayers will regain
Me him whose dirge I moan in one refrain:
I’ll never never see my boy again!