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> In the following page, there is a quote supposedly by Kaalidaasa.

> http://members.tripod.com/~prashant_tiwari/epilogue.html

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> If so, what's the book that K. sang this? And, the Sanskrit quote please

 

[begin quote]

Look to this day!

For it is life, the very life of life.

 

In its brief course,

Lie all the verities and realities of your

existence:

The bliss of growth,

The glory of action,

The splendor of beauty.

 

For yesterday is but a dream,

And tomorrow is only a vision,

But today well lived makes every yesterday

a dream of happiness,

And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

 

Look well therefore, to this day!

Such is the salutation to the dawn.

 

- Kalidas (Originally in Sanskrit)

 

[End quote]

 

The webpage claims this as K.'s. Is it too liberal a translation?

(From Sakuntalam??)

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