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"A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune."
"See, how the stream has overflowed Its banks, and o'er the meadow road Is spreading far and wide!"
"He makes sweet music with the enameled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge, He overtaketh in his pilgrimage."
"The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run."
"From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take."
"Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones."
"Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road. The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light."
"The music of the brook silenced all conversation."
"I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill: I could not hear the brook flow. The noisy wheel was still."
"Gently running made sweet music with the enameled stones and seemed to give a gentle kiss to every sedge he overtook in his watery pilgrimage."
"I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever."
"Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew; And whom the curious painter doth pursue Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks, And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.