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in which blood was circulating, now the blood has frozen
in that foot...
And,
the other foot says some couplets, at every step prays the Lord: "I may not trample others, becoming covetous of position not commit mischief,
may not tread upon any life, oh Lord! And how can
putting foot on the head of mother soil,
the chaste authority of peace,
be possible, oh Lord?
It is the rain of annihilation
on a happy region,
it is a stroke of cruel thunderbolt
on the hill of love, of affection.
I may not take the age away from happiness and peace,
and
not crush it with unhappiness and misery."
A wave of impatience
runs in the soil;
even
the duration for an avali (a fraction of a
moment)
leaves poison behind;
114 Silent Soil
