Shatakatraya 3.25

3.25

kiṃ kandāḥ kandarebhyaḥ pralayam upagatā nirjharā vā giribhyaḥ
pradhvastā vā tarubhyaḥ sarasa-gala-bhṛto valkalinyaś ca śākhāḥ |
vīkṣyante yan mukhāni prasabham apagata-praśrayāṇāṃ khalānāṃ
duḥkhāpta-svalpa-vitta-smaya-pavana-vaśānartita-bhrū-latāni ||

Have roots vanished from the mountain caves, or waterfalls from the peaks? / Have the branches of trees, shedding sweet fluid and clad in bark, been destroyed, / that one looks upon the faces of wicked men utterly stripped of modesty, / their creeper-like brows dancing under the wind of pride from a little wealth acquired with pain?