Two Lovers & A City

Let's be lovers again on the Belvedere Hand in hand we would climb the stairs Then fly to the past in our memories' wings To that timeless space where duelled Hastings! Let's be lovers again in that time spectral On Victoria's lawn her memorial In the autumn's white blue horizon Under the bronzed face of Curzon! Let's be lovers again in our revived heart In wind kissed skin on the Prinsep Ghat See the sun go down on the west bank low Coloring our eyes in the river's glow! Let's be lovers again in the garden of Kyd Where under the banyan love poems we read Take a boat sail to the south upstream Where the Hugli flows in the Bay's dream! Why can't we be lovers like the olden time Where landed Charnock in the humid clime That grew to a city with three villages to start And etched forever in two lovers' hearts!