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THE MATHEMATICIAN. WE OP THE UNIVERSITY OWE MORE TO HIM THAN EITHER WE COULD REPAY OR WHOLLY COMPREHEND. TO HIS LIVING MEMORY THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED; A SLIGHT GIFT, MADE RICH ONLY BY THE LOVING AND GRATEFUL THOUGHT OF HIM, WHICH WENT TO ITS MAKING.
The year sees many a birth and death Of little folks like you and me: His like has never yet drawn breath;
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INTRODUCTION
In short verses the Hindus
excel.
Their mastery
of form, their play of fancy, their depth and tenderness of feeling, are all exquisite.
Of
is
the
some fifteen hundred years ago as king of Ujjain, and lived most royally, tasting the sweets of life without thought of the morrow. At last he was roused from his carefree existence by an event which surprised and shocked him. He gave a magic fruit to a girl whom he loved. She loved another, and passed the gift on to him. He
Bhartrihari.
lived
He
presented
the king.
it
to his lady-love,
who
When
from her and learned of its travels, he was disgusted with the fleeting joys of the world, gave up his kingdom, and spent the rest of his life in a cave, writing poetry. The circumstance which led to his retire-
ment
is
The maid
commemorated in the following verse * my true heart loves would not my true love
:
be;
She seeks another man; another maid loves he; And me another maid her own true love would see: Oh, fie on her and him and Love and HER and me!
Reprinted by kind permission of the Century Magazine.
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life,
collection,
no
less
than eighty-five
ous sources.
own, as are also the titles prefixed to them. I have striven faithfully for a literal rendering. Though a rendering into verse cannot be quite as close as a prose version, nothing has been wilfully added or subtracted. One matter deserves notice here; I have occasionally translated Indian godnames, Shiva or Brahma, by the word God. This is not wholly accurate, yet not, I think, unfaithful in
spirit.
The present volume does not encroach unduly upon the excellent work of P. B. More: A Century /of Indian Epigrams. Only a few of the verses chosen by him are translated here, and even these in a manner quite different. I am under obligations to the University of California Chronicle for permission to reprint certain verses which first appeared in its pages.
Berkeley, California,
ARTHUR W. RYDER
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CONTENTS
PAGE
Women's Eyes
If Only
We
Love Is Young
Love Grows by
Gentle Eyes
1 2 3
What
It Feeds
on
4
5 6 7 8
9
Sweet and Bitter When I Knew a Little Bit Whom Does She Lovef Arrows of Love The Danger of Delay Better to Dwell in Mountains Wild
10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
^The April Wind My Polly 's Done Does She Love Mel
Remedies
Two Kings
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Serpent-Woman Can She Be Dearf The Decline of True Learning The Last Day
Logic
PAGE 26 27 28
.
29 30
Why!
All the
World
's
a Stage
The
Way
of the World
Who
...
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53
End
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PAGE 56 57
58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85
Where Education
Fails
in Marriage
On Giving a Daughter
Struggling Fancies
Oh, Might I End the Quest! .What Delights and Hurts The Sweetest Things 'The Unlucky Man
Renunciation
When Woman
Wills
>
Young Womanhood
v-The Bravest of the Brave
Dignity In the Days of Thy Youth They Want the Earth The Beasts That Don't Eat Grass
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The Wise Misogynist Nectar and Poison The Two Things That Matter The One Thing Needful
Unintelligible Virtue
PAGE 86 87
88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97
How Hard
Pate Grips!
Why Go
to Court!
Impossible!
Why My Poems
Died
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WOMEN'S EYES
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women's byes
The world
Demure, a
is
full of
women's
eyes,
overfree,
Or simply sparkling
roguishly;
my
head.
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If only
we might
dress in air,
And eat what begging brings, And sleep outdoors, we should not
For
all
care
the money-kings.
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LOVE
IS
YOUNG
The wrinkles on
my
My
My
Bat
hair
is
and
sin.
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LOVE GROWS BY
WHAT
IT
FEEDS
ON
"When she
is far,
I only
want
to see her
When she is seen, I only want to kiss her; When she is kissed, I never want to flee her;
I
know
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GENTLE EYES
Candle, and
fire,
and
star,
me
light;
But her
This world
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diamond you may draw Prom an alligator's jaw; You may cross the raging ocean A cobra you may wear
Like a blossom in your hair;
like
a pool;
fool.
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With
sufficient toil
You may
gather
oil
The mirage perhaps your thirsty lips may If you seek it night and morn,
You may
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SEVEN ARROWS
my
heart:
handsome man whose lips are dumb; rich man, miserly and glum; good man sunk in suffering;
rogue in favor with the king.
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SUBSTITUTES
harm
warm you?
health?
If blameless scholarship, If modesty,
what need of wealth? what need of gems and flowers? If poetry, what need of kingly powers?
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Sweet are the moonbeams, sweet the grass-grown wood, Sweet is the peaceful converse of the good, The poet's song is sweet, the maiden's face When angry tear-drops lend a sudden grace: All would be sweet if human fate were fitter;
all
the sweet to
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WHEN
KNEW A
LITTLE BIT
When
Then
knew a
silly,
little bit,
my
blinded wit,
Mad
as elephants in rut,
it
was omniscient; but little more From the scholar's hoarded store, Madness' fever soon grew cool, And I knew I was a fool.
Thought
When
I learned a
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WHOM
With one she gossips full of art; Her glances with a second flirt;
She holds another in her heart: Whom does she love enough to hurtf
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ARROWS OF LOVE
Where
I go to
Through
love has made Dearer to me than life (she said). Ah, girl, and are you not afraid,
him whom
For you are all alone? (he said.) The god of love shall be mine aid, Arrows of love fly true (she said).
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In giving, and receiving too, In every deed you have to do, Act quickly; if you wait a bit,
Then time
it.
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beasts of prey
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The wind of April is a lover bold: He makes the women shiver hot and cold; He shuts their eyes, he rumples up their hair, And catches rudely at the gowns they wear; Time after time he presses pretty lips
From which
a cry indignant-joyful
slips.
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MY POLLY
'S
DONE
Why
From
still
What can
The
she meant
My
Of
folly
's
done.
fever-sting
love's soft
And
arrow does not cling; yet she doesn't stop, poor thing!
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Although she does not speak to me, She listens while I speak; Her eyes turn not, my face to see,
But nothing
else
they seek.
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REMEDIES
fire
with water
parasols the
we
defeat,
heat,
With
midday
Mad
Oxen and
Poison with
many a
spell
and charm:
ill
still.
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You
Who
Yet we are honest and we see The only good is charity; And nothing charms us, fools or Except a maid with lotus-eyes.
wise,
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His powers are still the same, his actions too, His mind is quite as keen, his speech as true; Yet he has undergone a wondrous change He lost his money. Do you think it strange f
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DESIRE IS
YOUNG
Not time, but we, have passed away; Not virtue, we ourselves grow cold; Not joys, but we, no longer stay:
Desire
is
young, but
we
are old.
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Thou
A A A
tool,
and worth,
And
is
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Thy
upon thy brow, When thou wast born, what wealth should
wise creator wrote
once be thine;
The sum was great perhaps, or small; yet now Thy fate is fixed, and sure the law divine.
For if thou dwell within the desert's bound, Thou shalt have nothing less than his decree; Nor shall a single penny more be found, Although the golden mount thy dwelling be.
Ah, then be brave and play the manly part, Nor be so fond to humble thy proud heart
And fawn
For
see!
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TWO KINGS
The king
is
sleeping; go
away
He
Or
you stay
He
angry anyway.
My
No No
soul,
who
Whose
pain, no
human
suffering.
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Absence
is
union dear,
When
Union
is
absence drear,
love is done.
When
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THE SERPENT-WOMAN
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The thought of her is saddening, The sight of her is fear, The touch of her is maddening Can she be really dearf
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Of wise men. That was long ago. She then disdained such service rare,
Became a practical affair. But nowadays she sees that kings
Despise
all intellectual things,
And
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When
the celestial mount shall totter, burning In all-devouring flame, When seas go dry, where crocodiles are turning And sharks no man may tame, When the compact earth itself shall tumble sheer, Great mountains madly dance,
What
Of baby
elephants!
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LOGIC
How
long may subtle logic play its part In science and theology and art! So long as no young fawn-eyed maiden's
glance
Shall find
its
way
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May
The
fire
be released;
And
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THE RAINS
And when
Your
She
lady-love
Because she shivers with the cold; The breeze is fresh with heaven's spray And drives her lassitude away:
When happy
weather.
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Ye
On
For soon the breeze in southland born, With sandal sweet, will blow.
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WHY?
The deer, the fish, the good man hunger For grass, for water, for content; Yet hunter, fisher, scandalmonger
Pursue each harmless innocent.
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'S
A STAGE
The wrinkled
Beggar an hour, then fanned by riches* breath, actor, Man, bereft of power,
Creeps tottering behind the curtain, Death.
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In daily journeys of the sun little life is quickly done; In anxious duties of the day The hours unnoticed slip away;
Our
Though
birth
And
Goes
grief,
The world
mad
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She did not redden nor deny My entrance to her room; She did not speak an angry word; She did not fret and fume; She did not frown upon poor me,
Her
lover
now
as then;
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WHO
UNDERSTANDS A MAN?
Once he would follow at my feet, Obey my slightest word; And black was black, if black to me,
Or
white, if I preferred;
sit
And
But he
now.
Oh, dear!
Who
understands a
man?
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UNTRUSTWORTHY THINGS
The
tilings that
can gore,
And
man
more,
And
rivers
kings.
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TWO VIEWS OF
LIFE
When
ignorance
my
life
entwined,
strangely blind
Love's ointment
made me
But clearer judgment than of yore The veil before my vision tore I know that God is all the world and more.
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PROCRASTINATION
By and by
Never
fret
I shall try
By and
by.
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The
him
peace,
And
gives him comfort; but should fancy cease, The world would be a forest dead and dry,
And
must
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WHAT THEN?
What
What
Is
if
my
all
life is
fed
With
if my foeman's head ground beneath my feet? What if my wealth makes friends Again and yet again?
What
if
my
soul ascends
lives?
Through countless
What
then?
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WHAT THEN? H
Old
and
clings
Why
What
Sweet
God's
should I care?
horses, elephants,
Poor wife, or
rice,
and things
is o'er
difference there?
or wretched food
when day
Why
What
care again?
light,
then?
What
then?
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is
the slave
hint, the
knave
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JOYOUS TREASURES
How
hard a thing
it is
Whose
and
Who
for His sake earth's joyous treasures leave Without a pang at losing such delight!
Those joyous treasures I could never get; I cannot get them now; I am not sure That I shall ever win to them; and yet
I cannot flout the thought, the hope, the lure.
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VEXATIONS
The scholarship that grasps at straws, The woman's love that must be bought, The life that hangs on tyrants' laws
These things are with vexation fraught.
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VEXATIONS
birth;
Age
To vex our peace the women love; Our joy, ambition's sting; Rogues vex the court, and snakes the grove;
And
something, everything.
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LOVE,
THE FISHER
Love, the
woman-hook
red
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EPHEMERAL POTIONS
Men
think of water
first;
spice;
They clasp the women tighter: They have the strangest notions; They think ephemeral potions
Will heal the soul's commotions.
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What though
she have a bosom sweet, form to beauty wed, face in which the graces meet She must not turn your head.
Nay,
if her charm your fancy haunts, Then live on virtue's food; One cannot have the things he wants Except by being good.
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The lady's body is a forest blind, With dangerous hills, her bosom fair; Think not to wander there, my mind; The robber, Love, is lurking there.
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Why
'T
is
man
wish
fish
To hold
Upon
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friendship's end
Alas,
my
I
Now
am
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A WASTED LIFE
No stainless wisdom have I learned; No honest money have I earned; No fond obedience have I brought
To
parents, with a heart well-taught;
Of
My
was wasted
and blows.
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A WASTED LIFE
II
men
In conference, with the just and fitting word; I never made high heaven ring again, Praising the elephant-hunter's sturdy sword; I never tasted honey from the kind, Soft lips of maids when moonlight scatters gloom: My youth is gone and left no good behind, A candle burning in an empty room.
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A WASTED LIFE
III
The paths of thought I never trod Which lead to unity in God; Nor were my days to virtue given Which opens wide the gates of heaven;
Delights of love that
men
in a
esteem
dream:
my
mother's youth.
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FLAMING BANNERS
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You
practise theft by strangest arts Once and again; In broad daylight you steal the hearts Of waking men.
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saint,
dawn
or shade at noon,
faint,
Or
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CHOOSING A VOCATION
What
shall I
life!
Live humbly with a sweet, religious wife! Renounce the world, the ties of kindred sever,
spend my days beside the sacred river! Drink deep of honeyed poems' nectar-flow Or learn philosophy! I hardly know.
And
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their
To all the world their kindness brings They make a mote of good in others show
bright,
delight;
And
brighten
How many
all they touch with their own worth: such are to be found on earth T
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There was a noble city old, A mighty king, and vassals bold; And there were gathered scholars true, And moon-faced ladies not a few; And there were princes proud and free,
And
stories told,
and minstrelsy:
fall
memory now; we mourn their And honor Time, who levels all.
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WHERE EDUCATION
FAILS
get
In law, religion, etiquette, "Why are there few whose actions would, Interpreted, seem wholly goodf
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ON
GIVING
A DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE
To arms
of love
my
child today
is
given;
And now
I
and sacred pleasure; have restored the pledge that came from
I feel a calm
heaven.
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STRUGGLING FANCIES
It is
mind;
For back
my
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OH, MIGHT
my
brains
With magic, lost my rest: But never got a penny for my pains;
Oh, might I end the quest!
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WHAT
Ye
And
all
that
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The
sweetest sight a
man may
see
Her voice should be the sweetest sound; Her breath, the sweetest scent; The sweetest taste, the honey found
On
is
fervent prayer,
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bald
man
once,
whose
hairless pate
Fled to a cocoa-tree at noon He hoped to find a shady spot. And then a big nut fell, and crack! The poor, bald head was split in two. Misfortunes almost always find
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However long they stay; Then why not cast aside, my What leaves us anyway T
friend,
And
if
will,
in mending;
fill
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RENUNCIATION
What
It
means a lonely woodland scene Remote from men and human sin, From woes of love, from love of kin, Free from the world, a life apart That slays the tortures of the heart As fear of death and fear of birth: It means the best of heaven and earth.
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Is there
Cooled by the spray from Ganges' holy springs With rocks where fairies now and then alight,
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"Here
are banquets,
and singing
sweet,
feet,
And
may
this,
beat."
amiss,
bliss.
And
cheat
me
of
my
highest
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WHEN WOMAN
WILLS
God
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A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE
More easy 't is to win the wise and great; But God himself could never make content The man who feels himself elate With one small grain of knowledge in his
pate.
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THE
WEAKER
pwrr
The
classic poets make a great mistake; Forever of the weaker sex they speak;
When
Of
women weak?
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YOUNG WOMANHOOD
face,
The wealth of budding charms that show In little steps and dances, The flow of words that shyly prove The sweet, new woman-feeling:
Yes, all the fawn-eyed maiden does
Is wondrously appealing.
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few brave men pursue Rogue elephants to death; There are a braver few
Who
And
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DIGNITY
The dog
will roll,
and wag
his tail,
The majestic elephant gazes gravely on; Till coaxed a hundred times, he will not
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IN THE DAYS OP
THY YOUTH
While life is vigorous and bright, While sickness comes not, nor decay, While all your powers are at their height, While yet old age is far away, Then, wise man, let your thoughts be turning To heaven's hopes and fears of hell; For when the house is fired and burning,
It is too late to dig a well.
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'T
is
but a
little ball
of
mud
With a streak of water round; Yet kings for it will shed their blood,
As
They
So poor are they, so mean; And men will fawn on such a king! Oh, shame upon the scene!
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art,
Man is a beast, a hornless, tailless He doesn't eat the grass; for this The other beasts may well be glad at
beast;
at least
heart.
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WHY MEN
BEG
Is there a
man of spirit who would beg In broken words that stumble with his sobbing,
fears a surly
"no!"
And
empty throbbing?
None but the man who sees his wretched wife Sad always, sees her worn and ragged skirts,
Sees sad-faced babies tugging at their folds
With screams
hurts.
that
tell
how
fiercely
hunger
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The wise misogynist, poor soul, To self-deceit is given; For heaven rewards his self-control, And women swarm in heaven.
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all
poison lives
For she
is
nectar
And
poison
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Why
and
foolish chatter?
There are just two things that really matter: buxom, young, and frisky wife;
Or
else
a lonely
forest-life.
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"Why should I study scripture, sacred lore, Or any good, big book? Why get a store Of pious actions, anxiously performed And win a humble tent in heaven, no more?
The knowledge of myself is all I need To give me lasting joy, to burn the seed Of the interminable pain of life Let pious peddlars show their wares and
plead.
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UNINTELLIGIBLE VIRTUE
And
is
As
clasping her
As vain
as flickering candle-light
And
to the
their flight.
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The spring
is
not to blame.
feel
no shame.
fall,
blame the cloud. The lines that fate has written once for Are never disallowed.
to
wrong
all,
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POVERTY
The moon by
night, the
sun by day
One rag they have, one ragged cloud To serve them both as robe and shroud.
Poor things
I
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HOW HARD
FATE GRIPS
The snake and elephant are caged; The moon and sun must meet eclipse; The prudent are in strife engaged With poverty. How hard fate grips!
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WHEN MY
"When my love draws nigh, "When his voice I hear, "Why am I all eye! "Why am I all ear!
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THE HERMIT
He has no pride, he begs his food; From man-made laws his acts are free; He seeks no man's society; He has no care for common ways
Of
giving, getting all his days;
He
No
stitches up his garment ragged With wayside tatters, torn and jagged;
Eternal peace
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WHY
GO TO COUBTf
am
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impossible!
The consecrated
saints of eld
"Who lived on water, leaves, and air, Went mad with love when they beheld A face that showed how maids are fair.
And
if
the
eat
Their rice and milk and curds and ghee, Should curb the wish for things so sweet, The mountains would fly oversea.
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HINDRANCES
'T
life's
gray
And
hold
me
back.
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DIVINE VISION
My
And
mine.
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WHY MY
POEMS DIED
The critics all were jealous, The patrons full of pride, The public had no judgment; And so my poems died.
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This book should be returned^ the Library on or before the last date
stamped below.
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