{"id":52310,"date":"2013-02-02T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/?guid=642da54fc66641311072de5ad10cc110"},"modified":"2013-02-02T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T21:10:15","slug":"a-short-grace-to-monsoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2013\/02\/02\/a-short-grace-to-monsoon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Grace To Monsoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2013\/02\/a-short-grace-to-monsoon\/\">A Short Grace To Monsoon<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\">\u00a0KanglaOnline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By T. Priyokumar<\/p>\n<p>The sun is set behind the mountain,<br \/>\nA warm glow, a half halo,<br \/>\nFor birds to wing to their heart,<br \/>\nYes, swallows up and down,<br \/>\nAnd round and round.<\/p>\n<p>The evening air, cool for aft the rain,<br \/>\nHeavy clouds yon mountain tops,<br \/>\nYes, oh heart,<br \/>\nIts the monsoon herald.<br \/>\nLord, thy light and thy rain,<br \/>\nAs in thy fields,<br \/>\nI wonder what to plant in my heart,<br \/>\nThat my love will reap &#8211;<br \/>\nSo that her longing is filled.<\/p>\n<p>For let her offer you &#8211;<br \/>\nBright gold and silver glow,<br \/>\nThen it`s mine to pray.<br \/>\nGive her, Lord,<br \/>\nThe shrill and sound of the lark,<br \/>\nAnd royally, of the elephant.<\/p>\n<p>In thy monsoon, Lord,<br \/>\nTeach us all the sweat of labour,<br \/>\nAnd deliver us in the end &#8211;<br \/>\nAs thou didst in the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>The light in the west fades,<br \/>\nThe early birds are gone,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd the `hari-nong-nang` sings<br \/>\nThe change of guards &#8211;<br \/>\nDarkness to reign,<br \/>\nSome to rest,<br \/>\nAnd some to life comes.<\/p>\n<p>Ceaseless and endless in thy grace,<br \/>\nGrace &#8211; a memory returns,<br \/>\nLord, I was asked to forget,&nbsp;<br \/>\nBut that was wrong,<br \/>\nA spurt of the moment,<br \/>\nLet the monsoon rain wash,<br \/>\nThe scar marks of time`s errors.<br \/>\nAdieu, Adieu.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2013\/02\/a-short-grace-to-monsoon\/\">A Short Grace To Monsoon<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\">\u00a0KanglaOnline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2013\/02\/a-short-grace-to-monsoon\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-short-grace-to-monsoon\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2013\/02\/a-short-grace-to-monsoon\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-short-grace-to-monsoon<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2013\/02\/a-short-grace-to-monsoon\/\">A Short Grace To Monsoon<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\">\u00a0KanglaOnline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By T. Priyokumar The sun is set behind the mountain, A warm glow, a half halo, For birds to wing to their heart, Yes, swallows up and down, And round and round. The evening air, cool for aft the rain, &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2013\/02\/a-short-grace-to-monsoon\/\">Continue reading <span>&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2013\/02\/a-short-grace-to-monsoon\/\">A Short Grace To Monsoon<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\">\u00a0KanglaOnline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[61,330],"class_list":["post-52310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-brief-news","tag-kanglaonline-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}