Alas, by her was I so long controlled without having been able to know it. Various are the forms,-high, middling, and low,-that Nature assumes. Oh, how shall I like in those forms?
अनयाहं वशीभूतः कालमेतं न बुद्धवान्। उच्चमध्यमनीचानां तामहं कथमवासे॥