Henry David Thoreau ची एक कविता आणि त्या कवितेचा स्वैर भावानुवाद:
Friendship
I think awhile of Love, and while I think,
Love is to me a world,
Sole meat and sweetest drink,
And close connecting link
Tween heaven and earth.
I only know it is, not how or why,
My greatest happiness;
However hard I try,
Not if I were to die,
Can I explain.
I fain would ask my friend how it can be,
But when the time arrives,
Then Love is more lovely
Than anything to me,
And so I'm dumb.
For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak,
But only thinks and does;
Though surely out 'twill leak
Without the help of Greek,
Or any tongue.
A man may love the truth and practise it,
Beauty he may admire,
And goodness not omit,
As much as may befit
To reverence.
But only when these three together meet,
As they always incline,
And make one soul the seat,
And favorite retreat,
Of loveliness;
When under kindred shape, like loves and hates
And a kindred nature,
Proclaim us to be mates,
Exposed to equal fates
Eternally;
And each may other help, and service do,
Drawing Love's bands more tight,
Service he ne'er shall rue
While one and one make two,
And two are one;
In such case only doth man fully prove
Fully as man can do,
What power there is in Love
His inmost soul to move
Resistlessly.
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Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side,
Withstand the winter's storm,
And spite of wind and tide,
Grow up the meadow's pride,
For both are strong
Above they barely touch, but undermined
Down to their deepest source,
Admiring you shall find
Their roots are intertwined
Insep'rably.
- Henry David Thoreau
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स्वैर भावानुवाद :
मैत्री
विचार येतो मनात माझ्या...नक्की प्रेमा काय म्हणावे?
प्रेमच वाटे अन्न नि पाणी, स्वर्ग-धरेचा बंध असावे !
एक जाणतो परंतु निश्चित का नि कसे ते ठाउक नाही
उत्कट प्रेमातील हर्ष हा अखेर शब्दातीत च राही
'प्रेम असे' अन् 'प्रेम तसे' मी मित्रांमध्ये भले बोलतो
मिळता संधी प्रेम परंतू निःशब्दा तच मी अनुभवतो
प्रेम भासते, प्रेम जाणते...फुलवित जाते आणिक फुलते
झरते आणिक पाझरते ही.....भाषेविण ते अंगी मुरते
सत्यावर अन् सौंदर्या वर ...हृदय मनाच्या विशालतेवर...
मनुष्य करतो प्रेम परंतू ...सारे निर्भर हे प्रेमावर !
दोन जिवांची होते जेव्हां अवचित मैत्री या पायावर
दोन जिवांचा एकच आत्मा घेइ भरारी चराचरावर
दोन वृक्ष जणु उभे राहती तीव्र वादळे सोशित सारी
लोकां दिसते अंतर त्यांतिल उभे जरी दोघे शेजारी
केवळ वृक्षां माहित असते आंतरीक मैत्री जडलेली
भूमीखाली अदृश्यातच मुळे एकमेकां भिडलेली
- Henry David Thoreau
(स्वैर भावानुवाद : निलेश पंडित )
४ नोव्हेंबर २०१२
