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COROMANDAL FISHERSRise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray
to the morning light, The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn
like a child that has cried all night. Come, let us gather our nets
from the shore and set our catamarans free, To capture the leaping
wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!
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No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea
gull's call, The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the
waves are our comrades all. What though we toss at the fall of the
sun where the hand of the sea-god drives? He who holds the storm by
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Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the
mango grove, And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with
the sound of the voices we love; But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss
of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee; Row, brothers,
row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.
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Sarojini Naidu in Bombay (now Mumbai), 1946BornSarojini
Chattopadhyaya13 February 1879Hyderabad, Hyderabad State,
IndiaDied2 March 1949 (aged70)Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh,
IndiaOccupationPoet, writer, social activistNationalityIndian
BengaliAlma materKing's College LondonGirton College,
CambridgeSpouse(s)Dr. Muthyala GovindarajuluChildrenJayasurya,
Padmaja, Randheer, Nilawar and LeelamaniSignature
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Sarojini Naidu says that the sun has risen and it looks as if
the sky is praying to the sun,there is no wind and the second line
is a simile.the poet says that the narrator is calling out to his
colleagues who catch fish, to start their day. They call themselves
the king of the seaThe seagull is an animal that knows where the
fish are,so the fishermen follow them.the poet also describes the
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The sea god is the controller of the sea (Poseidon in Greek
mythology)the sea god will protect them.In the next Para Sarojini
Naidu describes that the fishermen like the land as wellbut the
waves and the foam of the sea is more calling to them. The poet,in
the last line says that the sun is setting and it is time to go
back to land.
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Child that has cried all nightLet us gather our nets from the
shoreSet our Catamarans freeLeaping wealth of the tide
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We are the sons of the SeaLeaping the wealth of the sea
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In the track of the Seagulls call
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Tide: the sea is our mother
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The scent of the Mango grove
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Sweet is the shade of the Coconut glade
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At the full O the moon
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Wild foams glee
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The kiss of the spray
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Row to the blue of the verge
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The low sky mates with the sea
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