C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Author Unknown
A Group of Indian Epigrams: Death Better Than Poverty
Translation of Charles Rockwell Lanman, editor
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And to a corpse he spake that rested there:
“Ho, rise, friend, quick! one moment help me bear
My heavy load of poverty and need.
Tired am I now. Long do I yearn to see
The quiet ease that death hath brought to thee.”
“Full well I know
Death’s yoke is easy,
Poverty’s not so.”
Never a word spake he.