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    "chapter": 146
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        "refId": "RV10-146:1",
        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "RV10-146:2",
        "text": "1. GODDESS of wild and forest who seemest to vanish from the sight."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "RV10-146:3",
        "text": "How is it that thou seekest not the village? Art thou not afraid?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "RV10-146:4",
        "text": "2. What time the grasshopper replies and swells the shrill cicada's voice,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-146:5",
        "text": "Seeming to sound with tinkling bells, the Lady of the Wood exults."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "RV10-146:6",
        "text": "3. And, yonder, cattle seem to graze, what seems a dwelling-place appears:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-146:7",
        "text": "Or else at eve the Lady of the Forest seems to free the wains."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "RV10-146:8",
        "text": "4. Here one is calling to his cow, another there hath felled a tree:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-146:9",
        "text": "At eve the dweller in the wood fancies that somebody hath screamed."
      },{
        "n": 10,
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        "text": "5. The Goddess never slays, unless some murderous enemy approach."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-146:11",
        "text": "Man eats of savoury fruit and then takes, even as he wills, his rest."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-146:12",
        "text": "6. Now have I praised the Forest Queen, sweet-scented, redolent of balm,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-146:13",
        "text": "The Mother of all sylvan things, who tills not but hath stores of food."
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