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| A few days more |
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| se7en |
| 08/07/02 at 19:36:58 |
A few days more, my dear, only a few days. We are compelled to draw breath in the shadows of tyranny; For a while longer let us bear oppression, and quiver, and weep: It is our ancestors' legacy, we are blameless; On our body is the fetter, on our feelings are chains, Our thoughts are captive, on our speech are censorings; It is our courage that even then we go on living. Is life some beggar's gown, on which Every hour patches of pain are fixed? But now the days of the span ofo tyranny are few; Patience one moment, for the days of complaining are few. In the scorched desert of the space of this age We must stay, but not stay like this; The nameless, heavy oppression of foreign hands Today must be borne, but not always borne. The dust of tribulations enfolding your beauty, Counting of the frustrations of our youth of two days, Futle burning pain of moonlit nights, The heart's profitless throbbing, the body's despairing cry-- A few days more, my dear, only a few days. --Faiz Ahmed Faiz [translated from the urdu by V.J. Kiernan] |
| Re: A few days more |
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| Aurora |
| 08/08/02 at 00:19:37 |
| >>> patience <<< Hard as it may be at times...its an essential facet of faith. ps. Great choice...as usual:) |
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