एखनहुँ गामे

The poem plays on the Maithili word pani, which means both water and honour or feeling. Despite envy, rivalry and quarrels, the village still holds affection and social harmony, and its old lustre is unchanged. The city is all motion and splash; the village has the strength of discipline, and where the city has only marsh, the village has a pond full of lotuses.कविता मैथिली शब्द ‘पानि’क दुहरा अर्थ—जल आ आब-लाज—पर खेलैत अछि। ईर्ष्या-द्वेष, फाँट-डाँटक बादो गाममे अनुराग आ सामाजिक सद्भाव बचल अछि, आ ओकर पुरान चमक अविचल अछि। नगर सब किछु हलचल आ छलछल अछि; गाम साधनाक बल निरमल अछि, आ जतय नगरमे बस दलदल अछि, ओतय गाममे कमलसँ भरल सरोवर अछि।