HYMN CLXXIII. The King.

1. BE with us; I have chosen thee: stand stedfast and immovable.

Let all the people wish for thee let not thy kingship fall away.

2 Be even here; fall not away be like a mountain unremoved.

Stand stedfast here like Indra's self, and hold the kingship in the grasp.

3 This man hath Indra stablished, made secure by strong oblation's power.

May Soma speak a benison, and Brahmanaspati, on him.

4 Firm is the sky and firm the earth, and stedfast also are these hills.

Stedfast is all this living world, and stedfast is this King of men.

5 Stedfast, may Varuna the King, stedfast, the God Brhaspati,

Stedfast, may Indra, stedfast too, may Agni keep thy stedfast reign.

6 On constant Soma let us think with constant sacrificial gift

And then may Indra make the clans bring tribute unto thee alone.