Fare lonely as rhinoceros...

The Sutta-nipata or "The Sutra Collection" is the fifth book of the khuddaka nikaya and is one of the 
earliest buddhist texts of the Pali cannon, coming from the same period as the Dhammapada, 
before the monastic tradition was strong. All its suttas consist largely of verse, though some also 
contain some prose. According to the traditional sources, the entire Canon (including the sutta-nipatta) was for the first time written down in the first century BCE in Sri Lanka. 

Consists of 71 short suttas and it is divided into five chapters:

• Uraga Vagga sutta
• Cula Vagga sutta
• Maha Vagga sutta
• Atthaka Vagga sutta
• Parayana Vagga sutta

 The following sutta, named Khaggavissana Sutta, is contained in the first chapter - uragavagga sutta.

Renouncing violence for all living beings,
harming anyone thereof;
Long not for son — how then for friend?
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Love cometh from companionship;
In wake of (egoic) love upsurges ill;
Seeing the bane that comes of  such love,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

In ruth for all his bosom friends,
A man, heart-chained, neglects the goal;
Seeing this danger in fellowship,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

If one find friend with whom to fare
Rapt in the well-abiding, apt,
Surmounting dangers one and all,
With joy fare with him mindfully.
Finding none apt with whom to fare,
None in the well-abiding rapt,
As rajah quits the conquered realm,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros. 

Tangled as crowding bamboo boughs
Is fond regard for sons and wife:
As the tall tops are tangle-free,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

The deer untethered roams the wild
Whithersoe'er it lists for food:
Seeing the liberty, wise man,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Casting aside the household gear,
As sheds the coral-tree its leaves,
With home-ties cut, and vigorous,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Seek for thy friend the deeply learned,
Dharma-endued, lucid and great;
Knowing the needs, expelling doubt,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

The heat and cold, and hunger, thirst,
Wind, sun-beat, sting of gadfly, snake:
Surmounting one and all of these,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Crave not for tastes, but free of greed,
Moving with measured step from house
To house, support of none, none's thrall,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Free everywhere, at odds with none,
And well content with this and that:
Enduring dangers undismayed,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Snap thou the fetters as the snare
By river denizen is broke:
As fire to waste comes back no more,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

And turn thy back on joys and pains,
Delights and sorrows known of old;
And gaining poise and calm, and cleansed,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Neglect thou not to muse apart,
'Mid things by Dhamma-faring aye;
Alive to all becomings' bane,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

As lion, mighty-jawed and king
Of beasts, fares conquering, so thou,
Taking thy bed and seat remote,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Poise, amity, ruth and release
Pursue, and timely sympathy;
At odds with none in all the world,
Fare lonely as rhinoceros.

Leaving the vanities of view,
Right method won, the Way obtained:
"I know! No other is my guide!"
 Fare lonely as rhinoceros.