SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
Miscellaneous Verses
Lo, the moon who gives to healing herbs their virtue, nectar’s home,
Food immortalising,– every wise physician’s radiant Som,1
Even him consumption seizes in its cruel clinging arms.
Then be ready! Fate takes all her toll and heeds not gifts nor charms.
1 Soma, the moon-god of the immortalising nectar, the Vedic Soma-Wine.