There goes an ancient legend how

Good Surabhí, the God-loved cow,

Saw two of her dear children strain,

Drawing a plough and faint with pain.

She saw them on the earth outworn,

Toiling till noon from early morn,

And as she viewed her children's woe,

A flood of tears began to flow.

As through the air beneath her swept

The Lord of Gods, the drops she wept,