birth iii the man of high or humble birth whose life with virtue s laws � the righteous modest man is worth a hundred merely high born lords he xii the man who nature knows with all the changing growth that from her springs and all the of living things � that man the gods a call ht he whose sole presence fills a place whose absence makes a void in halls where thousands throng the ample space that man the gods a call makes a a m xii iii a spirit asks what is it makes a birth deep study sacred lore or worth king answers nor study sacred lore nor birth the makes tis only worth all men � a most of all � should virtue guard with care and pains who virtue all but all is gone with virtue s fall the men in books who take delight all of learning s schools are nothing more than zealous fools the learn d are those who act aright more vile than one of race that deem whose learned store embraces all the lore if evil deeds his life disgrace that man deserves the s name who throws on s flame and knows his senses how to tame no better than a deem the wise in sin the slave of low degrading vice the who fain a holy man would seem from writers but rank with men of birth the ti self restrained by constant in virtue trained a twice born man ia he by worth to x xii the pious man who � drinks from all base deeds with calm tender mild kind patient just in a child � deserves alone the s name which no bad man can ever claim ihe f nor learning deep nor store of legends or of lore nor birth to save the priest who lives to vice a slave the man who much has read and his brain with copious learning who yet what he knows on men throws � by such base arts shall surely in future worlds enduring bliss the of the plant as part of a religious um xiii f some the world around and loudly virtue s praises sound yet fail to practise what they preach nay vice by vicious living teach to honour such let no one think who gives them gifts to hell shall sink to xiii to own too ample stores of wealth a s health the man who no misfortune knows whose life in bliss unbroken flows and who by fortune long is deemed by all of such success the price must pay � by vain conceit be led astray but when the filled with pride no longer others wisely guide abandoned by its then must virtue cease to govern men ii f xii f compare a should from honour shrink as he would poison dread to drink the original here has which may mean caste and rules and speaks of the conduct of the persons in question as leading to a confusion of and so is written from a point of view from writers aud love contempt as if be j a celestial though scorned the wise man sweetly sleeps though scorned he ever calmly wakes and scorned this course he calmly keeps but woe the s t � al iii f ff the high men who never sin in thought or word or action � they they are the true pray what virtue s in a skin he than mm in the xii g from every vicious taint though pure a s virtue cannot with theirs who ne er from trials fly but face and conquer every the not � w control xii v why pray to forests wild repair there war against thy senses t dwells the self s e the wood the s cell is there of xii ff when old and grey when strength by foes when crushed in evil days from fortune s heights when downward hurled � yes then let men the world but not in days of youth and health when crowned with glory with wealth those scripture which praise as best a life lone dragged sadly on in gloomy woods and dreary are in schools by fools which look like truth but proved are found to rest on no substantial ground to savage beasts it is not given by forest life to merit heaven yet this same life by led their future bliss tis said when men no pleasure feel nor pain a state of stupid gain they then have reached perfection rise to heaven so say the would be wise but should not trees � if this be � and gain perfection too for they are calm and feel nor pain nor pleasure woe nor they dread no want they seek no ease like self abandon then thy vain design by virtues seek to shine from see how by acts all strive their to through effort ne er perfection brings from deeds alone it springs the of tis from the soul the man within that actions all their value win no outward state er it be affects on action s quality would he not sin a sage who within a gifts no fruit er unless bestowed by a rf mi v no varied store of sacred has power to save the man in and fraud expert his lore him in his final hour as birds full their native nests desert s the triple staff long hair a garb of skins or bark a vow of silence meagre fare all signs the that mark and all the round of rites are vain unless the soul be pure from stain ci than i ff ff by weighing truth and sacrifice a thousand sacrifices truth xiii ff in one scale truth in the other lay a thousand try i doubt if all that pile so high even half as much as truth would weigh cm l ot 