Toru Dutt
poet · Kolkata, India · 1856–1877
Born in Bengal, she wrote poems and fiction in English and French. She lost her brother and sister and died herself at twenty-one.
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1870s · After losing the brother and sister who had played with her under that tree as children
But not because of its magnificence Dear is the Casuarina to my soul: Beneath it we have played; though years may roll, O sweet companions, loved with love intense, For your sakes, shall the tree be ever dear! Blent with your images, it shall arise In memory, till the hot tears blind mine eyes!
"Our Casuarina Tree," in Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882)
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