USHAVANDANAM

USHAVANDANAM (Salutation of Dawn)

Kalidasa (between 100BCE - 400AD)

(This is not an invocation to Dawn. The poet speaks to us as Usha (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 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 of Dawn!

Listen to the Exhortation of Dawn!