Avoid gambling, albeit you win
Gulping bait-hook what does fish gain?
Can gamblers in life good obtain
Who lose a hundred one to gain?
If kings indulge in casting dice
All their fortune will flow to foes.
Nothing will make you poor like game
Which adds to woes and ruins fame.
The game, game-half and gambler's art
Who sought with glee have come to nought.
Men swallowed by the ogress, dice
Suffer grief and want by that vice.
If men their time in game-den spend
Ancestral wealth and virtues end.
Game ruins wealth and spoils grace
Leads to lies and wretched woes.
Dress, Wealth, food, fame, Iearning-these five
In gambler's hand will never thrive.
Love for game grows with every loss
As love for life with sorrows grows.
GAMBLING
