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15 December, 2022
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Salutation to the Dawn

 

Salutation to the Dawn

 

“Look to this day!
For it is life,
the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the verities
and realities of your existence:
the bliss of growth;
the glory of action;
and the splendour of achievement.
For yesterday is but a dream,
and tomorrow is only a vision.
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow
a vision of hope.

 

Look, then, to this day!”

 

– Attributed to Kalidasa, a sanscrit poet from the 5th Century AD.

 

(I found this salutation in the book “Diary of a poet newly married. 1916-1917” (Visor Libros, page 43), by Juan Ramón Jiménez (Moguer 1881 – San Juan de Puerto Rico 1958). Juan Ramón Jiménez’s spouse, Zenobia Camprubí (Magrat del Mar 1887 – San Juan de Puerto Rico 1956) was responsible for the first translations into Spanish of the books of Rabindranath Tagore (Calcuta 1861 – Calcuta 1941), a bengali poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.  It is likely that Juan Ramón Jiménez came about this “Salutation to the Dawn” through his wife Zenobia.  But this is just my guessing…)