Shatakatraya 1.29

1.29

kṣut-kṣāmo 'pi jarā-kṛśo 'pi śithila-prāṇo 'pi kaṣṭāṃ daśām
āpanno 'pi vipanna-dīdhitir iti prāṇeṣu naśyatsv api |
mattebhendra-vibhinna-kumbha-piśita-grāsaika-baddha-spṛhaḥ
kiṃ jīrṇaṃ tṛṇam atti māna-mahatām agresaraḥ kesarī ||

Wasted with hunger, worn out with old age, his breath failing, fallen into / a wretched state, his radiance vanished, though life itself is departing: / does the lion, foremost among those great in self-respect, whose only desire / is fixed on a mouthful of flesh from the split temple of a rutting lord of elephants, eat withered grass?