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Immortal shining goddess, she The depths and heights alike hath filled, And drives with light the dark away.
To me she comes, adorned well, A darkness black now sightly made; Pay then thy debt, o Dawn, and go.[100]
The bright one coming put aside Her sister Dawn (the sunset light), And lo! the darkness hastes away.
So (kind art thou) to us; at whose Appearing we retire to rest, As birds fly homeward to the tree.
To rest are come the throngs of men; To rest, the beasts; to rest, the birds; And e'en the greedy eagles rest.
Keep off the she-wolf and the wolf, Keep off the thief, O billowy Night, Be thou to us a saviour now.
To thee, O Night, as 'twere an herd, To a conqueror (brought), bring Ian hymn Daughter of Heaven, accept (the gift).[101]
THE ACVINS.
The Açvins who are, as was said above, the 'Horsemen,' parallel to the Greek Dioskouroi, are twins, sons of Dyaus, husbands, perhaps brothers of the Dawn. They have been variously 'interpreted,' yet in point of fact one knows no more now what was
