Indian Antiquary Vol 40

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 97

MARCH, 1911.)
SONGS FROM NORTHERN INDIA
Or it may be a quick-running chariot. Dance, dance, my love, and cease not. Put no stop on your pleasure."
When youth and longing meet, 20. They rush forward to plander happiness.
Then there is the sense of sleep. Another matter it is they think of. Then one whispered : “ Listen again!
That awful noise is doubly louder. 25. It is now like the thunder of the clouds.
Harken to the echo; it is doubling." The guns were coming up rapidly As they came nearer, the earth trembled.
" All to arms! all to arms! " 30. Confusion increased and happiness fled away.
With pain all were weeping and lamenting, Pain that cannot be described. Women became ashamed, remembering their weakness,
And beautiful rosy cheeks, became pale, 35. Sighing with the sigh of sorrow.
It seemed as if sorrow would take the life from the bodies. "What hope can we make for ourselves That our eyes will meet our loved husbands again ?"
The night had passed in happiness and joy ; 40. The morning dawned in horror.
No. II.
In Praise of the English. Sung and recorded by Kishor Singh, a boy in the Village School at Kotild, District Agra.
Text. Firangi, tero Raj sundar sada rahiyo. Taine rapiyâ cbalâyâ chehrû-sâhi.
Firangi, tero Raj, etc. Taine sasak par rel chalai.
Firangi, tero Rdj, eto. Taine dhůân ke shabd urâi.
Firangi, tero Ráj, etc. Taine nainů chalâye bûtedir.
Firangi, tero Rdj, etc. Taine paisa chalâye dabalsai.
Firungi, tero Raj, etc. Terî raiyat ne sukh pái. Firangi, tero Rdj, etc.
Translation. 0 Englishman, may thy Rule for ever flourish. Thou didat bring in the rupee with the face on it.
O Englishman, may thy Rule, etc. Thou didst run the railway train on the roads.
O Englishman, may thy Rule, etc. Thou didst raise up the voice of the steam (lit. smoke). .
O Englishman, may thy Rule, etc. Thou didst introduce the flowered calicoes.
O Englishman, may thy Rule, etc. In contradistinction to the Muhammadan coinage with merely writing on it.