Aw Nang, tlâkhawlh leh thang tinreng nena

Mafaa Hauhnar
Vawiin hi “Mizo Shakespeare-a” kan tih hial khawpa thu leh hla thiam, mi bâk sâwna Zoṭawng lama diau lo leh mi bâk chhama Sâpṭawng lama duai lo, a hawina lam apianga Zofate min thlêk rualtir dial dial thei khawpa huhâng leh huvâng ngah, ṭawng lettu (translator) themthiam tâwpthang, fakselna (criticism) lama hmahruaitu ropui, critic chhuanawm chungchuang, chanchinbu enkawltu (editor) ṭha eltiang, dictionary siamtu (lexicographer) duhawm filawr JF Laldailova (1925 - 1979) pianchamphaphâk vawi 88-na a ni a. A pualin “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” a lehlin hi ka han phawrh e.

Aw Nang, tlâkhawlh leh thang tinreng nena
Ka damlai kalkawng lo hum leh kamtu,
Ruatlâwk tlûksualna khura ka tlâk chuan,
Ka thiam lohvah riak min puh lo’ng che aw!

Aw Nang, hlum lungmâwl nena ‘Hring duangtu,
Leh Eden ruala Thlêmtu Rûl dahtu,
Mihring hmelhemna sual zawng zawngah hian
Min ngaidam la; kan ngaidam ve ang che.

(Oh, Thou, who didst with Pitfall and with Gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with Predestination round
Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?

Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And who with Eden didst devise the Snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give --and take!)