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The "Babe's Pageant," one of the earlier poems of the, again calls up the story of Govinda. His mother teaches Govin to walk to the sound of the doggerel verse:

Presently the child walks or wriggles until he falls into the tank in the yard of the house, and is saved by good luck. At a later stage he is saved from the wrath of the Five-faced Pancho or Pancharana, one of the gods, another form of "the all-destroying Siva." Govin in fact had offended him, and a fit was the consequence. Happily Alanza, the boy's grandmother, knows