Le Coromandel Coast

I was wiki-ing this...no special reason...coromandel comes from Cholamandalam. Here's a poem about the Coromandel coast...


In a room of the palace
Black Mrs. Behemoth
Gave way to wroth
And the wildest malice.
Cried Mrs. Behemoth,
‘Come, come,
Come, court lady, 
Doomed like a moth,
Through palace rooms shady!
The candle flame
Seemed a yellow pompion,
Sharp as a scorpion
Nobody came . . .
Only a bugbear
Air unkind,
That bud furred papoose,
The young spring wind,
Blew out the candle.
Where is it gone?
To flat Coromandel 
Rolling on!


- Dame Edith Sitwell


and there's another by Walter J. Tuner called 'Coromandel' which I can't find :| . It was hard enough to locate the one above....:)
But here's one by Sarojni Naidu which i found instead--->

Coromandel Fishers

Rise, 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!


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 the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.


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. 

Sarojini Naidu

Anyway, so its pretty surprising that the coromandel coast has featured in literature so much over the years. There's a book by Lear as well. :)

Anyway, so I have to get up early tomorrow, (watchin a movie and all that) so I'll be going now.

Cya :)