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Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Fate

Ill Luck

A bald man, goes the story, when the noon

Beat his plagued brows into a fiery swoon,

Desiring dimness and cool place was led

By subtle Fate into a high palm’s shade.

There where he shelter hoped, a giant fruit

Crashed on his pate and broke with horrid bruit.

Wherever the unfortunate hides his head,

Grief and disaster in his footprints tread.