"Fire-Hymn" has been composed by Keki N. Daruwalla. His Full Name was Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla. He was Born in 26 January, 1937 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan but he has Indian Citizenship. He was an Indian-Anglo Poet and short story writer. He was awarded The Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984 for his Poetry. The Keeper of the dead and Padma Shri Award in 2014. His Important Works are:- "Under Orion", "The Keeper of the dead", "Landscapes" etc.

The Burning ghat erupted phosphorescence:

and wandering ghost lights frightened passers-by

as moonlight scuttled among the bones.

Once strolling at dawn past river-bank and ghat

we saw embers losing their cruel redness

to the grey ash that swallows all, half-cooked limbs

bore witness to the fire's debauchery.

My father said, "You see those half-burnt fingers

And bone-stubs? The fire at times forgets its dead!"

A Zoroastrian I, my child-fingers clenched

Into a little knot of pain,

I swore to save fire

From the sin of forgetfulness.

It never forgot, and twenty years since

As I consigned my first-born to the flames —

The nearest Tower of Silence was a thousand miles —

The Fire-hymn said to me, "You Stand forgiven,"

Broken, yet rebellious, I swore this time

To save it from the sin of forgiving.

1. Hymn: धार्मिक गीत

2. erupted: भड़क उठना

3. scuttled: बौछार

4. strolling: इधर उधर घूमना

5. embers: लकड़ी या कोयले का टुकड़ा जो जलते नहीं है लेकिन फिर भी लाल हो जाता है

6. debauchery: अपना काम सही से नहीं करना /अनैतिक व्यवहार

7. stubs: अधजला / पूरा न जला हुआ

8. Zoroastrian: पारसी धर्म

9. consigned: समर्पित करना / भेजना

10. Tower of Silence: एक ऐसा जगह जहा पारसी धर्म के लोगो को मरने के बाद रख / टाँग दिया जाता है

11. rebellious: नियमो का विद्रोह करने वाला / सोचने वाला

12. swore: कसम खाना

13. phosphorescence: ऐसा आग का रौशनी जिससे गर्मी न आये

14. wandering: भटकना

15. frightened: डरा हुआ

16. half- cooked limbs: आधा जला हुआ अंग

17. knot: गांठ

18. forgetfulness: भूलना / भूल

19. forgiving: माफ़ करना