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The Pain of Separation
Following verses from Vidyakara's Subhasitaratnakosa, translated by D.H.H. Ingalls:
1. Have mercy, sleep,
and show me once again
my darling though it be for a moment;
for when I see her
I shall hold her in my arms so tightly
she shall not go, or if she goes
must take me too.
2. Blacken the night with brushes thick with ink;
with incantations exorcise the lily's smile;
place the moon upon a stone and grind it into atoms,
that I may see the whole world painted with her face.
3. Such are her thighs, her loins and belly,
such are her breasts and such her smile
such her sweet words, her waterlily eyes, the chignon of her hair
and such her face, distilling drops of beauty's nectar.
Many's the time I sit in meditation thus
of a single feature of my fawn-eyed love.
4. Grief cuts my heart and cuts it deep
but cuts it not in two;
my body, though it stumbles dazed,
refuses to lose consciousness.
An inner fire burns my limbs
without consuming them;
the hand of fate which strikes so deep,
alas, strikes not the life.
1. Have mercy, sleep,
and show me once again
my darling though it be for a moment;
for when I see her
I shall hold her in my arms so tightly
she shall not go, or if she goes
must take me too.
2. Blacken the night with brushes thick with ink;
with incantations exorcise the lily's smile;
place the moon upon a stone and grind it into atoms,
that I may see the whole world painted with her face.
3. Such are her thighs, her loins and belly,
such are her breasts and such her smile
such her sweet words, her waterlily eyes, the chignon of her hair
and such her face, distilling drops of beauty's nectar.
Many's the time I sit in meditation thus
of a single feature of my fawn-eyed love.
4. Grief cuts my heart and cuts it deep
but cuts it not in two;
my body, though it stumbles dazed,
refuses to lose consciousness.
An inner fire burns my limbs
without consuming them;
the hand of fate which strikes so deep,
alas, strikes not the life.
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