Religion
Weariness
Translated by Nicol Macnicol (1919) · From Psalms of Maratha Saints (1919)
Religion
Shall we, sham saints, the world beguile
Glutting our belly's greed the while?
O tell thy thought, if this it be,
For I am weary utterly.
Shall we the poet's mood rehearse
And string together endless verse?
Shall Tuka ope his shop again
And, O Narayan, ruin men?
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Tukaram. “Weariness.” Translated by Nicol Macnicol. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tukaram/46/.
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Tukaram. “Weariness.” Translated by Nicol Macnicol. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tukaram/46/.
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