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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Firmness

The Ball

Lo, as a ball that, by the player’s palm

Smit downward, falls but to again rebound,

So the high virtuous man hurled to the ground

Bends not to fortune long his spirit calm.