PERMANENCE
Life is Short,
Art is long,
The bards of ages,
the eternal
truth sing.
Yet in short span,
the
darlings of art,
Beauty and truth scan,
Speak universal values,
Oozing at every
pore.
Why complain of shortness of life,
One can find beauty in small
measures,
Creation knows no bounds of time,
Nor fades in
evanescent existence.
–N. V. RAMDAS, Orissa