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 THE CURSE AT FAREWELL

DEBJANI Your vows are done ; The hard-got knowledge from your master won ; Your difficult penance of a thousand years Fulfilled. Yet think if no desire appears, No wish, however slight.

KACH

Nothing at all.

DEBJANI Nothing? Yet look once more. Let your glance fall

To the hid depths—plunge in, and search. Be sure, If anywhere, if any wish endure, 'Twill sting like Ausa-grass,' whose barb unseen, Though imperceptible, is piercing-keen. 18 18