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 Of million wives ! Did ever a women love And he not yield to her wish !" 'Mother! wrongly You read the sense of all those wondrous works Of great Gopal. Didst thou not hear it said That spirit of good husbands the human souls ?" As if not hearing, she, "Thoeoe in those panes The amorous God a worthy lesson teach And saints ! Well ! well ! if there is a heart that burns With love for thee, respect you not examples They have set ?" "I ? Certainly not. One e'en May read the mystic meaning of the stars; Make out with daring aim the maker's writ On naked skulls, or peep through linkless words At prophets' hearts; but who, however great Of learning, can presume to read the sense Of acts divine ? On commonest things, doubt stamps Her dismal mark. Why then should one with feet Unhallowed tread the realms divine?' "Well, Prince! If logic strange like this, befitting more The broken hearts of forest bowers should come From youthfull beauty, why then, may not our sex Petition the Gods against the marks of toys Useless like us! The sprightly shape belies These monkish texts. But I shall preach గురుజాడలు