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Thirukkural 1269

Chapter 127: அவர்வயின் விதும்பல் (Mutual Desire) · Love

Kural 1269

ஒருநாள் எழுநாள்போல் செல்லும்சேண் சென்றார்
வருநாள்வைத்து ஏங்கு பவர்க்கு.

Orunaal Ezhunaalpol Sellumsen Sendraar
Varunaalvaiththu Engu Pavarkku

One day will seem like seven to those who watch and yearnFor that glad day when wanderers from afar return

Meaning

To those who suffer waiting for the day of return of their distant lovers one day is as long as seven days.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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