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This is understood, O you who endure the unendurable (avisayhasāhi);
I give you myself and that mango —
you who, having abandoned the sensual pleasures (kāmaguṇa) so hard to relinquish,
stand established in peace and in righteousness (dhamma).
Whoever, having given up the former bond (saññoga), stands fixed in a later fetter (saññojana)
and practises unrighteousness (adhamma) — evil in him only grows.
Come, I shall bring you to what you desire; remain unconcerned;
I shall lead you into the cool [grove]; dwell there free from longing.
That [grove], O subduer of foes, [teems] with crook-limbed birds (vaṅkaṅga) drunk on the nectar of flowers —
with cranes (koñca), peacocks, and heavenly koyaṭṭhi and madhusāliya birds;
it resounds with flocks of swans, and therein the cuckoos wake [one from sleep].
There the mango trees, their crests in full blossom, look like heaps of straw on a threshing-floor;
and the kosumba, salaḷa, and nīpa (kadamba) trees droop [with fruit] like ripe palmyras.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.