Sri Aurobindo
Translations
CWSA.- Volume 5
Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four.
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On the Wicked
Seven griefs are as seven daggers in my heart,–
To see a lake without its lilied bloom,
The moon grow beggared of her radiant part,
Sweet woman’s beauty fade towards the tomb,
A noble hug his wealth, a good man gone
Down in the press of miseries, a fair
And vacant face when knowledge is not there,
A base man standing by a monarch’s throne.