Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 2709

I am led by the chain of love about my neck; I bark when I see it is time to bark. I am your dog, O Keshiraja, I am kept for this duty. I know who comes and goes along the high road or the bypaths. Tuka says, I keep at a distance strangers who approach, that they come not near.

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