The plums tasted
sweet to the unlettered desert-tribe girl-
but what manners! To chew into each! She was ungainly,
low-caste, ill mannered and dirty,
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Mira’s conviction that she was a cow-herd girl in Gokul in one of her previous births is wonderful. The preceding narrative adds beauty to this statement.
What a generous heart Mira had....a poem on love for God irrespective of caste and creed....wonderful
she'd tasted the nectar of passion. Might not know any Veda, but a chariot swept her away- now she frolics in heaven, esctatically bound to her god. great poem. tony