While working on birds, beasts and flowers,
One carry it forward from Toru to modern times,
From Wordsworth to Lawrence
To Hughes and Larkin.
India of the bullock-carts, horse-carriages,
Asses of the washer-men going to the ghat,
Cheetahs gone extinct, hunted down,
Snake-charmers with the cobras
Playing the wooden instrument,
Hanumans going with their teams,
Black-mouthed, white-haired,
Small breed rhesus monkeys
Red-mouthed and beautiful,
How to describe, put to words
An exotic India of strange flora and fauna?
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