SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
from Sanskrit and Other Languages
II. From Bengali
VI
Sweet, gaze not always on thine own face in the mirror,
Lest looking so on thine own wondrous beauty,
Thou lose the habit of thy queenly duty
And thy poor subject quite forget.
Well may I fear such fatal error,
Since they who always on their own wealth look
Grow misers and to spend it cannot brook,
Lest thou like these grow miser of thy beauty, sweet.