VYASA AND HOMER

 

K. V. Ramana Rao

 

In Vyasa, an isle, there lived a poet of vision,

He sang with the fervour of a divine mission,

All the world’s glow-worm poets will stand in reverence

Before his Sun-Flame mind’s exalted pesence

In Greece was born a poet of divine fire,

His epic voice is as from a god’s lyre,

Abandoned he roamed in rags in opulent cities

And fought for his bread where his Achilles fought for his Greece.

 

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