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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On the Wicked

Two Kinds of Friendship

Like shadows of the afternoon and morn

Friendship in good men is and in the base;

All vast the lewd man’s in its first embrace,

But lessens and wears away; the other’s, born

A dwarfish thing, grows giantlike apace.