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Calcutta nr. 257 = 245
Nicolas 1867 - 195
La roue des cieux ne fait que multiplier nos douleurs! Elle ne pose rien ici-bas qu'elle ne vienne aussitôt l'arracher. Oh! si ceux qui ne sont pas encore venus savaient quelles sont les souffrances que nous inflige ce monde, ils se garderaient bien d'y venir!
Payne 1898 - 422
The heavens to us add but despite evermore;
Nought they plant, but they rase it forthright evermore;
Th' unborn, if they knew what we suffer from Fate,
Would refuse to come forth to the light evermore.
Thompson 1906 - 283
Since Heaven increases nothing but our pain,
And gives naught that it takes not back again.
The unborn ne'er would hither come if they
But knew what we at Fortune's hands sustain.
Whinfield 1883 - 240
Heaven multiplies our sorrows day by day,
And grants no joys it does not take away;
If those unborn could know the ills we bear,
What think you, would they rather come or stay?