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        "n": 1,
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        "text": "translated by"
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        "n": 2,
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        "text": "1. Ye by your hymns are like high-thoughted singers, skillful, inviting Gods with sacrifices;"
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        "n": 3,
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        "text": "Fair to behold, like Kings, with bright adornment, like spotless gallants, leaders of the people:"
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        "n": 4,
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        "text": "2. Like fire with flashing flame, breast-bound with chains of gold, like tempest-blasts, self-moving, swift to lend your aid;"
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "RV10-78:5",
        "text": "As best of all foreknowers, excellent to guide, like Somas, good to guard the man who follows Law."
      },{
        "n": 6,
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        "text": "3. Shakers of all, like gales of wind they travel, like tongues of burning fires in their effulgence."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "RV10-78:7",
        "text": "Mighty are they as warriors clad in armour, and, like the Fathers' prayers, Most Bounteous Givers."
      },{
        "n": 8,
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        "text": "4. Like spokes of car-wheels in one nave united, ever victorious like heavenly Heroes,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "RV10-78:9",
        "text": "Shedding their precious balm like youthful suitors, they raise their voice and chant their psalm as singers."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "RV10-78:10",
        "text": "5. They who are fleet to travel like the noblest steeds, long to obtain the prize like bounteous charioteers,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "RV10-78:11",
        "text": "Like waters speeding on with their precipitous floods, like omniform Angirases with Sama-hymns."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "RV10-78:12",
        "text": "6. Born from the stream, like press-stones are the Princes, for ever like the stones that crush in pieces;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "RV10-78:13",
        "text": "Sons of a beauteous Dame, like playful children, like a great host upon the march with splendour."
      },{
        "n": 14,
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        "text": "7. Like rays of Dawn, the visitors of sacrifice, they shine with ornaments as eager to be bright."
      },{
        "n": 15,
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        "text": "Like rivers hasting on, glittering with their spears, from far away they measure out the distances."
      },{
        "n": 16,
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        "text": "8. Gods, send us happiness and make us wealthy, letting us singers prosper, O ye Maruts."
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        "n": 17,
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        "text": "Bethink you of our praise and of our friendship: ye from of old have riches to vouchsafe us."
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