Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1251

“He has given a sweetmeat to everyone but he won’t look at me!” So some cowherd rubs his eyes, and beats his thighs and smites his face. “He prefers the others; I am a poor wretched boy!”

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