Religion
"There Needs Not an Appointed Hour"
Translated by Nicol Macnicol (1919) · From Psalms of Maratha Saints (1919)
Religion
There needs not a propitious hour
This name to cry.
Lo, both who speaks it and who hears
Are saved thereby.
This holy name bears quite away
All man's offence, —
Hari, the saviour e'en of men
Of little sense.
Who speak this name, the soul of all,
O happy they!
Plain for their fathers' feet they make
The heavenward way.
Cite this poem
MLA
Jnanesvar. “"There Needs Not an Appointed Hour".” Translated by Nicol Macnicol. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jnanesvar/6/.
Chicago
Jnanesvar. “"There Needs Not an Appointed Hour".” Translated by Nicol Macnicol. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jnanesvar/6/.
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