I salute you all! I am come to collect the revenue from house to house. Get together arrears and current dues, or I shall put you in the pillory. You must not disperse without being [OCR text incomplete]. If [he] is at home, tell me who [is in the] family. To-day, good man, you must get change ready to pay me; there will be no time to-morrow. Tuka says, You will gain nothing by your excuses; at the end of the year they will sift everything.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 1323
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents