Living
Epigram XLV
Translated by Paul Elmer More (1898) · From A Century of Indian Epigrams (1898)
Living
O'er perilous mountain roads with pain
I've journeyed, yet acquired no gain;
The pride of birth I have forsworn
And toiled in service, yet no profit borne.
In strange homes where I blushed to go
My food I've taken, like the crow,
And eaten shame. — Oh lust of gold!
Oh Greed! that younger grow'st as I wax old
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Bhartrihari. “Epigram XLV.” Translated by Paul Elmer More. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bhartrihari/43/.
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