A benediction on cow and calf

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

HYMN LXX

A benediction on cow and calf

1As wine associates with flesh, as dice attend the gaming-board,
  As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,
  So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upou thy calf.
2As the male elephant pursues with eager step his female's track,
  As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,
  So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upon the calf.
3Close as the felly and the spoke, fixt as the wheel-rim on the
   nave,
  As an enamoured man's desire is firmly set upon a dame,
  So let thy heart and soul, O Cow, be firmly set upon thy calf.