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    "chapter": 10
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "RV10-10:1",
        "text": "translated by"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-10:2",
        "text": "1. FAIN would I win my friend to kindly friendship. So may the Sage, come through the air's wide ocean,"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-10:3",
        "text": "Remembering the earth and days to follow, obtain a son, the issue of his father."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-10:4",
        "text": "2. Thy friend loves not the friendship which considers her who is near in kindred as stranger."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-10:5",
        "text": "Sons of the mighty Asura, the Heroes, supporters of the heavens, see far around them."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-10:6",
        "text": "3. Yea, this the Immortals seek of thee with longing, progeny of the sole existing mortal."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-10:7",
        "text": "Then let thy soul and mine be knit together, and as a loving husband take thy consort."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-10:8",
        "text": "4. Shall we do now what we ne'er did aforetime? we who spake righteously now talk impurely?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-10:9",
        "text": "Gandharva in the floods, the Dame of Waters-such is our bond, such our most lofty kinship."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-10:10",
        "text": "5. Even in the womb God Tvastar, Vivifier, shaping all forms, Creator, made us consorts."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-10:11",
        "text": "None violates his holy ordinances: that we are his the heavens and earth acknowledge."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-10:12",
        "text": "6. Who knows that earliest day whereof thou speakest? Who hath beheld it? Who can here declare it?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-10:13",
        "text": "Great is the Law of Varuna and Mitra. What, wanton! wilt thou say to men to tempt them?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "RV10-10:14",
        "text": "7. I, Yami, am possessed by love of Yama, that I may rest on the same couch beside him."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "RV10-10:15",
        "text": "I as a wife would yield me to my husband. Like car-wheels let us speed to meet each other."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "RV10-10:16",
        "text": "8. They stand not still, they never close their eyelids, those sentinels of Gods who wander round us."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "RV10-10:17",
        "text": "Not me-go quickly, wanton, with another, and hasten like a chariot wheel to meet him."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "RV10-10:18",
        "text": "9. May Surya's eye with days and nights endow him, and ever may his light spread out before him."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "RV10-10:19",
        "text": "In heaven and earth the kindred Pair commingle. On Yam! be the unbrotherly act of Yama."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "RV10-10:20",
        "text": "10. Sure there will come succeeding times when brothers and sisters will do acts unmeet for kinsfolk."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "RV10-10:21",
        "text": "Not me, O fair one,-seek another husband, and make thine arm a pillow for thy consort."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "RV10-10:22",
        "text": "11. Is he a brother when no lord is left her? Is she a sister when Destruction cometh?"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "RV10-10:23",
        "text": "Forced by my love these many words I utter. Come near, and hold me in thy close embraces."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "RV10-10:24",
        "text": "12. I will not fold mine arms about thy body: they call it sin when one comes near his sister."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "RV10-10:25",
        "text": "Not me,-prepare thy pleasures with another: thy brother seeks not this from thee, O fair one."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "RV10-10:26",
        "text": "13. Alas! thou art indeed a weakling, Yama we find in thee no trace of heart or spirit."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "RV10-10:27",
        "text": "As round the tree the woodbine clings, another will cling about thee girt as with a girdle."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "RV10-10:28",
        "text": "14. Embrace another, Yami; let another, even as the woodbine rings the tree, enfold thee."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "RV10-10:29",
        "text": "Win thou his heart and let him win thy fancy, and he shall form with thee a blest alliance."
      }
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