{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/av/av01034.htm","path":"hin/av/av01034.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av01034.htm","text":"Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895]\n01. From honey sprang this Plant to life; with honey now we dig\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0thee up.\n \u00a0\u00a0Make us as sweet as honey, for from honey hast thou been pro-\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0duced.\n 2My tongue hath honey at the tip, and sweetest honey at the root: p. a31\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou yieldest to my wish and will, and shalt be mine and only\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0mine.\n 3My coming in is honey-sweet and honey-sweet, my going forth:\n \u00a0\u00a0My voice and words are sweet: I fain would be like honey in\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0my look.\n 4Sweeter am I than honey, yet more full of sweets than licorice:\n \u00a0\u00a0So mayst thou love me as a branch full of all sweets, and only me.\n 5Around thee have I girt a zone of sugar-cane to banish hate.\n \u00a0\u00a0That thou mayst be in love with me, my darling never to depart.","title":"Atharva Veda: Book 1: Hymn 34: A young man's love-charm","type":"page"}