Forty Pleasant Quatrains [38 - 41] Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

38.It is blithesome to think of the youth as old-age.
It is joyous to hear terror-free, terrific news from the relations.
To think of the bamboo-shouldered, tender-shoot like maids
as the venom is gleeful.

39.The weapon in the hand of the youth thrills.
It is nice to see the art of someone with several relations
in handling the foes. The feast offered by a host with a cow
that gives abundant milk, will be sweet.

40.It is happy to see a beggar begging to fill his stomach
is not angry. Agreeing to live together with greatness of
enjoying less sorrow is very pleasing.Being greedy and straying
from virtue, but feeling no mental fatigue is amusing.

41.Better it is to live in the native even by giving ten kinds of
things.If one eats not the grains kept for seeds by pounding,
it is joyous.It is nothing more exalting to learn
from ever beneficial books of worth.