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Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Virtue

The Good Friend

Thus is the good friend pictured by the pens

Of good men: – still with gentle hand he turns

From sin and shame his friend, to noble gains

Still spurs him on; deep in his heart inurns

His secret errors, blares his parts abroad,

Gives at his need, nor takes the traitor’s road

Leaving with facile wings when fortune spurns.