356 BENGALI LITERATURE ত্জিয়ে এ স্থধারসো কেন বিষ ভখিবো, কলুষকৃপে ডুবিব। থাকিতে নয়নো অন্ধ যেই জনো, পেয়ে প্রেমধনে! সে হারায় ॥ and the ways of sucha lover are ironically reproached তে!মার চরিত, পথিক যেমত হোয়ে শ্রান্তিফুত বিশ্রাম করে । শ্রান্তি দূর হলে, যায় সেই চোলে পুন নাহি চায় ফিরে ॥ If one can judge from the exceedingly small mass of poems of Rasu and Nrsirnha, which has been preserved but which is too inadequate to represent their talents in full, one . would still hesitate to set aside these little things as mere melodious trifles or deny that their authors possessed a considerable share of the irresistible song-gift. Their love- songs may lack, as the love-songs of most of the Kabiwalas do, novelty, polish or depth; but they havea simple directness and an untutored nobility which is not common enough among contemporary songsters. Haru Thakur, however, the next great Kabiwala, dis- plays a variety and abundance of poetical accomplishment, and his work has fortunately come
- ee Thakur. 1788- down to us in a comparatively large
bulk. Hare Krsna Dirghadi or Dirghangi, popularly styled Haru Thakur, the adjunct Thakur having been added asa mark of respect, was a Brahman among Kabiwalas of generally inferior caste. He was born at Simla, Caleutta, in 1738 (1145 B.S.).! | Writing in 1854, [Svar Gupta says that Haru died at the age of 75, “more than forty years” before his own time. This would indicate that the dates of Haru’s birth and death would be roughly 1739 and 1814 respectively.
