Purananuru - Part 206
You who are the gatekeeper! You who are the gatekeeper!
Gatekeeper who never closes the gate against those
who come here in need, leading this life of pleading,
to sow shining words in the ears of the generous
and so to gain what they wish for, with their strong
urges and anguished concern for dignity! Does the lord
Netuman Añci, whose horses are swift, not know himself
or not know me? This is no empty world and all the wise
and famous men are not dead. And so we will swing our ornaments
on to our shoulders and pack up our instruments in their cases.
Like the children of a carpenter who cuts trees, their hands skilled
at wielding the ax, when they roam the deep forest—
whether we go this way or whether we go that way, we will have rice!
Gatekeeper who never closes the gate against those
who come here in need, leading this life of pleading,
to sow shining words in the ears of the generous
and so to gain what they wish for, with their strong
urges and anguished concern for dignity! Does the lord
Netuman Añci, whose horses are swift, not know himself
or not know me? This is no empty world and all the wise
and famous men are not dead. And so we will swing our ornaments
on to our shoulders and pack up our instruments in their cases.
Like the children of a carpenter who cuts trees, their hands skilled
at wielding the ax, when they roam the deep forest—
whether we go this way or whether we go that way, we will have rice!
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