HYMN XIX. Waters or Cows.

1. TURN, go not farther on your way: visit us, O ye Wealthy Ones.

Agni and Soma, ye who bring riches again, secure us wealth.

2 Make these return to us again, bring them beside us once again.

May. Indra give them back to us, and Agni drive them hither-ward.

3 Let them return to us again: under this herdsman let them feed.

Do thou, O Agni, keep them here, and let the wealth we have remain.

4 1 call upon their herdsman, him who knoweth well their coming nigh,

Their parting and their home-return, and watcheth their approach and rest.

5 Yea, let the herdsman, too, return, who marketh well their driving-forth;

Marketh their wandering away, their turning back and coming home.

6 Home-leader, lead them home to us; Indra, restore to us our kine:

We will rejoice in them alive.

7 1 offer you on every side butter and milk and strengthening food.

May all the Holy Deities pour down on us a flood of wealth.

8 O thou Home-leader, lead them home, restore them thou who bringest home.

Four are the quarters of the earth; from these bring back to us our kine,