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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Pride and Heroism

The Motion of Giants

On his wide hood as on a painted shield

Bears up the rangèd worlds, Infinite, the Snake;

Him in the giant midmost of his back

The eternal Tortoise brooks, whom the great field

Of vague and travelling waters ceaselessly

Encompass with the proud unfathomed sea.

O easy mights and marvellous of the great,

Whose simplest action is yet vast with fate!