Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 270

Desiring the bait, a fish swallows the hook;
his throat is laid open and he dies: as he
writhes in the hour of death, he remembers the
merciful one; in his last moments he utters thy
name. Tuka says, His happiness passes all bounds.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents