To Affliction

Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at sacred-texts.com

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HYMN XXVI

To Affliction

1Let me go free, O Misery: do thou, the mighty, pity us.
  Set me uninjured in the world of happiness, O Misery.
2From thee, from thee who fliest not from us, O Misery, we fly.
  Then at the turning of the paths let Misery fall on someone else.
3May the immortal, thousand eyed, dwell otherwhere apart from
   us.
  Let him afflict the man we hate: smite only him who is our foe.