He concludes after each strophe that such is her relationship to her daughter, and explains that she would attain her end only in marriage, and that single in her own home she would be like the sandalwood on the hill, and pearl in the unfathomed cave of ocean, and the music that lies hushed in the lute, which are of no use to man so long as they are not made available to him.59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 59Kali; 9, 12 ff. |