2013-10-29

Kālidāsa: Dúiseacht

Dúiseacht


  Fiú an té atá sona
    faigheann sé leid éigin
    nó teagmhaíonn ribe fuaime leis

    agus pléascann a chroí le tnúthán
        nach n-aithníonn sé
  ní foláir nó gur ag cuimhneamh atá sé
  ar chruthanna ar thug sé grá dóibh
         in áit nach bhfuil teacht air

         i saol roimhe seo
  is a gcló ina chroí i gcónaí is iad ag feitheamh
         Kālidāsa  कालिदास
leagan Gaeilge Gabriel Rosenstock

Waking


English version by W. S. Merwin & J. Moussaieff Masson

  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