Ryder
THE LINES OF FATE
If thorn-plants in the desert leafless be,
The spring is not to blame.
If owls in broadest daylight cannot see,
The sun should feel no shame.
If in the plover's bill no raindrops fall,
'Twere wrong to blame the cloud.
The lines that fate has written once for all,
Are never disallowed.
Tawney
If thorns and briars bear no leaves we do not blame the Spring,
Nor yet the sun, if blinking owls fly not till evening.
That _châtaks_ gape in vain for showers is not the cloud's disgrace;
Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.
Telang
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पत्रं नैव यदा करीरविटपे दोषो वसन्तस्य किं
नोलकोप्यवलोकते यदि दिवा सूर्यस्य किं दूषणम् ।
धारा नैव पतन्ति चातकमुखे मेघस्य किं दूषणं
यत्पूर्वं विधिना ललाटलिखितं तन्मार्जितुं कः क्षमः ॥ ९ ३ ॥
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XCIII . ( b ) ° को ; ° का . S. प्यवळीकते याद ; न विलोकयन्ति च S. X. ० ध्यव
लोक्यते यदि L. W. Bo . ( d ) तन्मार्जितुं कः क्षम :; देवस्य किं दूषणम् . S. X.
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St. XCIII.- for is not uncommon . See for one instance
Vairâgyas'ataka St. 71. The correlative , it will be also observed ,
is wanting . On , vide supra Stanza 49. - S'árdúlavikridita .
Gopinath1914
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Gopinath1896
