ETERNAL INDIA
TO M. K. GANDHI.
The following poem was contributed by Mrs. Sarojini Naidu to the “Young India”:
Thou whose unaging eyes have gazed upon The Vision of Time’s glory and decay, Round thee have flower-like centuries rolled away Into the silence of primeval dawn, Thou hast out-lived Earth’s empires and outshone The fabled grace and grandeur of their sway, The far-famed rivals of thine yesterday, Iran and Egypt, Greece and Babylon, Sealed in Tomorrow’s vast abysmal womb What do thy grave prophetic eyes foresee Of swift or strange world-destiny and doom? What sudden kingdoms that shall rise and fall, While thou dost still survive, surpass them all, Secure, supreme in ageless ecstasy?