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HYMN CXXXII

HYMN CXXXII 1, 2. Then too the single bottle-gourd, the bottle-gourd dug    from the earth, 3, 4. The lute dug up from out the ground: this the wind stirs    and agitates. 5, 6. Let him prepare a nest, they say: he shall obtain it strong    and stretched. 7, 8. He shall not gain it unspread out. Who among these will    touch the lute? 9, 10. Who among these will beat the drum? How, if he beat it,    will he beat? 11, 12. Where beating will the Goddess beat again again about the    house? 13, 14. Three are the names the camel bears, Golden is one of them,    he said. 15, 16. Glory and power, these are two. He with black tufts of hair    shall strike.