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CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Fools and Folly

A Choice

Better were this, to roam in deserts wild,

On difficult mountains and by desolate pools,

A savage life with wild beasts reconciled,

Than Paradise itself mated with fools.