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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Virtue

The Ways of the Good

Who would not honour good men and revere

Whose loftiness by modesty is shown,

Whose merits not by their own vaunts appear,

Best in their constant praise of others known,

And for another’s good each power to brace

To passionate effort is their selfishness?

Hark to their garrulous slanderer’s gurge of blame

Foaming with censure violent and rude!

Yet they revile not back, but put to shame

By their sweet patience and calm fortitude.

Such are their marvellous moods, their noble ways,

Whom men delight to honour and to praise.