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1. GOD-SERVING men, O Sovran of the Forest,
with heavenly meath at sacrifice anoint thee.
Grant wealth to us when thou art standing upright as when
reposing on this Mother's bosom.
2 Set up to eastward of the fire enkindled,
accepting prayer that wastes not, rich in hero.
Driving far from us poverty and famine, lift thyself up to
bring us great good fortune.
3 Lord of the Forest, raise. thyself up on
the loftiest spot of earth.
Give splendour, fixt and measured well, to him who brings
the sacrifice.
4 Well-robed, enveloped he is come, the
youthful: springing to life his glory waxeth greater.
Contemplative in mind and God-adoring, sages of high
intelligence upraise him.
5 Sprung up he rises in the days' fair
weather, increasing in the men-frequented synod.
With song the wise and skilful consecrate him: his voice the
God-adoring singer utters.
6, Ye whom religious men have firmly
planted; thou Forest Sovran whom the axe hath fashioned, -
Let those the Stakes divine which here are standing be fain
to grant us wealth with store of children.
7 O men who lift the ladles up, these hewn
and planted in the ground,
Bringing a blessing to the field, shall bear our precious
gift to Gods.
8 Adityas, Rudras, Vasus, careful leaders,
Earth, Heaven, and Prthivi and Air's mid-region,
Accordant Deities shall bless our worship and make our
sacrifice's ensign lofty.
9 Like swan's that flee in lengthened line,
the Pillars have come to us arrayed in brilliant coIour.
They, lifted up on high, by sages, eastward, go forth as
Gods to the God's dwelling-places.
10 Those Stakes upon the earth with rings
that deck them seem to the eye like horns of horned creatures;
Or, as upraised by priests in invocation, let them assist us
in the rush to battle.
11 Lord of the Wood, rise with a hundred
branches. with thousand branches may we rise to greatness,
Tlou whom this hatchct, with an edge well whetted for great
felicity, hath brought before us.
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