Death & Dying
The Way of Death
Translated by Nicol Macnicol (1919) · From Psalms of Maratha Saints (1919)
Death & Dying
Ah, friend, beware; see how they bear
The dead men to the ghaut.
To God on high with agony
Call and cease not.
Though 'mong the dead not numbered,
Within thy scrip is death.
Fill up, fill up with good thy cup,
While thou hast breath.
List what I say; — the narrow way
Is dense with dying men;
'Mong them at last thy lot is cast.
No succour then.
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Tukaram. “The Way of Death.” Translated by Nicol Macnicol. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tukaram/65/.
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Tukaram. “The Way of Death.” Translated by Nicol Macnicol. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tukaram/65/.
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