The Words of the Wise are Few - Sakya Pandita

Of all the lands where mighty forests grow, 

But few that bear the sandalwood I know; 

In every clime the wise and good I view, 

And yet, alas! their golden words are few.

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Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (1182 – 1251) Tibet

Transalted by Frederic Rowland Marvin

Source: Flowers of song from many lands; being short poems and detached verses gathered from various languages and rendered into English by Frederic Rowland Marvin, Pafraets Book Company, 1902