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: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Translation of Charles Rockwell Lanman, editor
T
Hundreds of kings of royal state,
Have seen, by Time’s almighty hand,
Their glories so put out
As are the flames of lamps that stand
Where puffs the wind about.