Nor has my life been thrown away.

I see the best of Bráhman race

And night to glorious morn gives place.

Thou, holy Sage, in days of old

Among the royal saints enrolled,

Didst, penance-glorified, within

The Bráhman caste high station win.

'Tis meet and right in many a way

That I to thee should honour pay.

This seems a marvel to mine eyes: