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CWSA.- Volume 5

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

On Fate

The Script of Fate

When on the desert-bramble’s boughs you find

Leafage nor flower, blame not the bounteous Spring!

Is it the sun’s fault if the owlet blind

Sees not by day so radiant-bright a thing?

Though down the rainlark’s throat no sweet drops flow,

Yet for his falling showers the high cloud praise.

What Fate has written in power upon the brow,

Where is the hand so mighty it shall rase?