[2545] "This life, I think, is led onward —
scanty, like water in the mud;
when life is so very scanty,
it is not the time to be heedless.
This life, I think, is led onward —
scanty, like water in the mud;
when life is so very scanty,
yet fools are heedless.
They swell hell (niraya),
the animal kingdom (tiracchānayoni), and the realm of hungry ghosts (pittivisaya);
bound by the bond of craving (taṇhā),
they swell the host of demons (asurakāya)."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.