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The Mountain in the Puddle

Manjul


Seeing you lie in such a small puddle,
I feel pity on you;
you should rather have lain
all over the grandeur of the sky.
Seeing you bow down and further down,
I feel for you;
you should rather have grown upward.
You happened to turn the sky upside down,
and render the trees uprooted on grounds.
Seeing you stand inverted this  way,
I am pained,
O mountain in the puddle!

[Trans: Mahesh Paudyal. Source: Dancing Soul of Mount Everest.]

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