I am an old man ...

hill-bred, hill-fed, never to sit down among my Hills.
Three years I travelled through Hind, but--can earth be stronger than Mother Earth?
My stupid body yearned to the Hills and the snows of the Hills, from below there.

I said, and it is true, my Search is sure.
So, at the Kulu woman's house I turned hillward, over-persuaded by myself.

There is no blame to the hakim.

He--following Desire--foretold that the Hills would make me strong.