after the long tempestuous rains of night

Even if passion should pass, 

                O man of the hills 

                where 

                                after the long tempestuous rains 

                                of night 

                the morning's waterfalls 

                make music in the caverns, 

would our love also pass 

with the passion? 

 

[Kapilar {100-200 A.D.} 'What Her Friend Said to Him' Kuṟ 42, from The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems, trans. from the Tamil by A.K. Ramanujan]