Living
Epigram LXXXIII
Translated by Paul Elmer More (1898) · From A Century of Indian Epigrams (1898)
Living
Of old fair Learning served the wise to ward
Time's grieving from the heart;
Then to the worldly bowed her to afford
The charms of sensual art;
Now each new lordling of an ill-got field
Disdains her; she must yield,
And deeper hides and farther draws apart.
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Bhartrihari. “Epigram LXXXIII.” Translated by Paul Elmer More. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bhartrihari/78/.
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Bhartrihari. “Epigram LXXXIII.” Translated by Paul Elmer More. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bhartrihari/78/.
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