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Goat : "Foolish to wager your blood for the life ye cherish?"
Lord : “This beyond your scant years to understand the scriptural prudence of your Lord's reprimand. Only to death, shall ye youngster confess that lifeblood is lifeless."
Goat : “No compromise ? No haughty blow for a helpless death-prize ?"
Lord : “Ofttimes the body is absolutely helpless under alien crimes." (with mild emphasis) : “Yet the soul is not helpless if the body lives by the vow of harmlessness,
if even to your own self, ye heed non-injury in thought, word and deed. Ye Goat ! By the vow, ye give mercy. Ye Goat! Your future shall inherit your past clemency."
Goat (subdued): “When I fall, I ask ye Lord's tidings be my renewal.”
Lord : "May this truth of the Jaina religion move ye goat towards self-realization, for ye are your own peaceable soul in the reality of the Jaina eternity.'
Said the Lord : “Earth-mother, Ye Cow, bestowing a milk-ocean forever, mournful eye and stumbling gait betray that man fixes on ye an arrogant weight. Yet your gentle name gives him rest from labour, O hushed and purple cowdust hour."
Said the Cow (heartsick): "Lord knows the memories creeping in the shadows, precious little faces, woeful little calls of my dear babes, lost beyond the mudwalls."
Lord (apart): “How to ease this mother-heart of anguish as her little ones depart ? Solace must be
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