227. You swallow the butter and the curd three times a day,
that the cowherd women churn and keep.
You make the pots that the cowherds
carry on their shoulders fall and drink the yogurt.
You sob and sob like the children
who want to drink milk from their mothers.
Dear child, I know who you are
and I’m afraid to give you food.
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(The words may be rearranged to facilitate poetry to prose conversion (Aṉvayam). Please read the meanings (in black) continiously to form the sentence and understand the simple meaning of those verse.)