Sri Aurobindo
Translations
CWSA.- Volume 5
Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four.
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On the Wicked
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.