The kingdom could sleep.
Youths have been intoxicated
With the glory of dying in war.
Women have been intoxicated
With the virtue of being chaste.
The literatures have glorified
Such people and condemned others.
Such men and women lived as slaves
So that the kingdom could sleep well.
30.01.2009
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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