SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Wealth
Be not a miser of thy strength and store;
Oft in a wounded grace more beauty is.
The jewel which the careful gravers score;
The sweet fair girl-wife broken with bridal bliss,
The rut-worn tusker, the autumnal stream
With its long beaches dry and slender flood;
The hero wreathed with victory’s diadem,
Adorned with wounds and glorious with his blood;
The moon’s last disc; rich men of their bright dross,
By gifts disburdened, fairer shine by loss.