C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Author Unknown

A Group of Indian Epigrams: The Metempsychosis (II)

Translation of Charles Rockwell Lanman, editor

[It is still a familiar sight in a German village to see the women go to the public fountain to fetch water, and stop for a while to gossip with their neighbors. To such a stop is the span of human life likened.]

SHORT time we bide together here below,

Like maids that to the village fountain go:

By fate unto one meeting-place we’re led;

By Karma then forever sunderèd.

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