Kalidasa - Waking
Waking
by Kalidasa
English version by W. S. Merwin & J. Moussaieff Masson
Original Language Sanskrit
Even the man who is happy
glimpses something
or a hair of sound touches him
and his heart overflows with a longing
he does not recognize
then it must be that he is remembering
in a place out of reach
shapes he has loved
in a life before this
the print of them still there in him waiting
-- from East Window: Poems from Asia, Translated by W. S. Merwin
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Love, peace, Joy, and pleasant memories to all.
by Kalidasa
English version by W. S. Merwin & J. Moussaieff Masson
Original Language Sanskrit
Even the man who is happy
glimpses something
or a hair of sound touches him
and his heart overflows with a longing
he does not recognize
then it must be that he is remembering
in a place out of reach
shapes he has loved
in a life before this
the print of them still there in him waiting
-- from East Window: Poems from Asia, Translated by W. S. Merwin
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Love, peace, Joy, and pleasant memories to all.