Favorite Poems
Salutation to the Dawn
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
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 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.
Ka’lidasa’
(regarded as most outstanding
writer of classical Sanskrit,
Indian poet and dramatist
who lived sometime between
300 AD and 634 AD)