I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, In life after life, in age after age forever. My spell-bound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms In life after life, in age after age forever.
Whenever I Hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain, Its ancient tale of being apart or together, As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time: You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount At the heart of time love of one for another. We have played alongside millions of lovers, shared in the same Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell - Old love, but in shapes that renew and renew forever:
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you, The love of all man's days both past and forever: Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life, The memories of all loves merging with this one of ours - And the songs of every poet both past and forever
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and this too... the song This song of mine will wind its music around you, my child, like the fond arms of love. The song of mine will touch your forehead like a kiss of blessing.
— Deepa
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I want to give you something, my child, for we are drifting in the stream of the world. Our lives will be carried apart, and our love forgotten. But I am not so foolish as to hope that I could buy your heart with my gifts.
Young is your life, your path long, and you drink t
When in the company of the world-weary Elderly, with faces and natures like prunes, Then home truths and public embarrassments, Past tense and present, like persistent old tunes, Batter and bruise the delicate beliefs, Deceits, conceits and prevarications of Youth. Bitter and ossified as the years leave them, Even the mildest will lecture on truth, Beauty a
When the past is harrassing your handsome youth and the present holds a foolishly deceiving mirror, Expectancy for a nude future is an crucifying mirage.