POEM FROM TAMIL LITERATURE - REAL ACCOMPLISHMENT (50)

ABOUT THE POEM: It is a translated version of an engrossing poem from Tamil literature, REAL ACCOMPLISHMENT. It is all about what the girl's friend told the deceitful husband. She argues that real accomplishment is not residing in a fertile country where the yield of crops and the availability of seafood are in plenty. Further, she adds riding in speedy chariots and acquiring wealth in abundance are the consequence of past deeds. According to the girl, what the scholars call true achievement is a delicate response to their countrymen's anguish and misery. REAL ACCOMPLISHMENT Oh! Laudable lad, residing in the country where the farmers furrow their wet fields not long after the harvest to plant seeds for the following season get back with their seed receptacles loaded up with fish, consider my words: it isn't abundance to acquire eminence and ride in speedy chariots are the consequence of past deeds. but the scholars call real accomplishment is a delicate benevolence to the agony and misery of their compatriots. (what the girl's friend told the deceitful husband)