[Illustration: Drawing of a person sitting outside a thatched-roofed
house]
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_The Cow Forgotten, Leaving the Man Alone._ Things are one and the
cow is symbolic. When you know that what you need is not the snare or
set-net but the hare or fish, it is like gold separated from the dross,
it is like the moon rising out of the clouds. The one ray of light
serene and penetrating shines even before days of creation.
Riding on the cow he is at last back in his home,
Where lo! there is no more the cow, and how serenely he sits all
alone!
Though the red sun is high up in the sky, he seems to be still quietly
asleep,
Under a straw-thatched roof are his whip and rope idly lying beside
him.