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Still I find from birth and sickness, age and death no full 

 salvation. 



Then descend, etc., etc. 



4. 



Straight and strong was this my body in the days of youth 

 and manhood, 



Now it stoops and leans all forward, and from side to side it 

 staggers. 



From ray mouth my teeth have fallen ; wish to chew my food 

 is bootless. 



Then descend, etc., etc. 



5. 



My once handsome face is wrinkled, furrow deep o'erlaid on 

 furrow. 



Dimmed the lustre, weak the vision, of mine eyes once bright 

 and piercing. 



Forms and scenes I see but dimly. In my walk I halt and 



totter. 



Then descend, etc., etc. 



t>. 



Hard of hearing am I rendered, laughed at, made a mock by 



others. 



My once strong and manly figure, reft of seemly form and 

 substance, 



Now is but a bony framework with a flabby skin o'ercovered. 

 Hard tor me to win by labour even the scantiest food and 



raiment. 



Then descend, etc., etc. 



7. 



Now grown weak and old and ugly, wretched, woeful my 

 appearance. 



Never youth now heeds my counsel, rather do they jeer and 



others. 



Dead 



Then descend, etc., etc. 



8. 



By decree of Karma's mandate, piercing pangs of sickness 

 seize me. © r © 



As is solar lunar splendour swallowed up by envious Rahu, 

 tne ongh tness of my visage fails and fades to sicklv pallor. 

 1 hen descend, etc., etc. 



