SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On the Wicked
Yea, how this high sun burns that was so low,
Enlightening with his favours all things base!
Hating all goods, with chainless license vile
Of those his filthy deeds makes arrogant show
Obscurely engendered in his unseen days
Ere sudden fortune raised from miry soil.
No virtue now, genius nor merit’s safe
From vulture eyes that at all cleanness chafe.