Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1396

I have become your gatekeeper and watched all your property.
I kept the world from you; I suffered no one to touch you.
I have laid down laws for men in the way set forth to me.
Club and rod in hand, I stand to protect you in peril of my life.
I shall want my just wages now, says Tuka.

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