Snatch thy money from the purse of Time!
Like Omar, come down from thy camel![49]
Beware of incurring obligations, beware!
How long wilt thou sue for office 445
And ride like children on a woman’s back?
A nature that fixes its gaze on the sky
Becomes debased by receiving benefits.
By asking, poverty is made more abject;
By begging, the beggar is made poorer. 450
Asking disintegrates the Self