Yea, a White belle and a beauty
In a white sari?
Who, who is she, a foreigner lady in a sari,
A sadhvi of some guru ashrama,
An American lady teaching yoga,
Who, who the lady?
Is she Sister Nivedita of Vivekananda or Mira of Aurobindo
Or the white European girl accompanying Mahatma Gandhi,
You tell me, just tell me?
A foreigner in India, how will she beat the heat and dust
Of the Indian summer,
An English, a European girl of the foreign cold climes,
O, how, how will she live her!