Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.71

c14.71

We all have various hopes and plans
and many are the ways of men:
The craftsman seeks for jobs to do,
the priest his flock, the leech the sick.
The arrow-smith with hard dry reeds
and feathers from the airy birds,
Bronze for the tips, and glowing coals,
seeks out the man who’ll pay him best.
I am a poet, dad’s a leech,
and mother grinds corn on the quern:
As cows go following, one on one,
we all seek wealth in different ways.
The horse likes a light-laden cart,
gay hosts attract the laugh and jest:
Man longs for woman, natural as
the parched frogs longing for the rains.