Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2708

When any one steals up behind, he drives him far away; he turns him out of his own house and home. He crouches at your feet, and runs away if you say “Cho!” to him. If he smells a stranger he rises up and shakes himself; Tuka says, He puts fear into people, he does not allow anybody to share the buttermilk of his house.

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