When I think how I have known
parties where the lyre was heard
and the heavenly voice of poets,
and when I think of anguish
and of partings from my friends;
rejoicing for a moment, then despairing,
I know not what to call the world:
whether made of nectar or of poison.
(trans Daniel H. H. Ingalls)
Source: Sanskrit Poetry from Vidyakara's Treasury
parties where the lyre was heard
and the heavenly voice of poets,
and when I think of anguish
and of partings from my friends;
rejoicing for a moment, then despairing,
I know not what to call the world:
whether made of nectar or of poison.
(trans Daniel H. H. Ingalls)
Source: Sanskrit Poetry from Vidyakara's Treasury
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