“ Thou, bold of heart, in thine own native might, for help, upon the limit of this mid-air and of heaven, Hast made the earth to be the pattern of thy strength: embracing flood and light thou reachest to the sky. ”

“ Whom those that flow in heaven on sacred grass, his own assistants, nobly-natured, fill full like the sea,-- Beside that Indra when he smote down Vrtra stood his helpers, straight in form, mighty, invincible. ”