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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Wisdom

Great and Meaner Spirits

Some from high action through base fear refrain;

The path is difficult, the way not plain.

Others more noble to begin are stayed

By a few failures. Great spirits undismayed

Abandon never what once to do they swore.

Baffled and beaten back they spring once more,

Buffeted and borne down, rise up again

And, full of wounds, come on like iron men.