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and are much soberer and often forcible. Two such passages which 
are free from obscenity are extracted to give an idea of his poetry. 
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“ In the midst of crores after crores of insects I am only one. How 
little is my intelligence, my power of moral discrimination. [30]. Who 
can write out the stars of the sky ; who can count the raindrops ; who 
can take stock of the sea waves; who can dare swim across the ocean ? 
even this may be possible ; but the glory of Krsna none can describe. 
[31].” 
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R. K. 16th Chanda, p. 63. 
u (Oh Lord !) The name-flowers of thine I have strung with care into 
a lovely wreath, which none is so fit to take by paying its equivalent. 
Like the wreath-maker, I myself could not take even a part; who so 
fortunate, that would take it ? None there is all round so braided-haired 
(Le., blessed), that can put this garland round his neck. Thus am I 
thinking in my mind,—the people of this world have constantly become 
habited like the Samabedists, (i.e. shavelings, and therefore unfit to put 
on the garland). [27].” 
