Verse 52

⁵²One should not give too much love or attachment anywhere or to anyone. A man who does will find grief, like the dove, and his mind will be brought low. ⁵³A certain dove in the forest made a nest in a great tree and lived there with his wife the dove for some years. ⁵⁴The two doves, their hearts strung tight with love, keeping the way of a household, bound eye to eye, limb to limb, and mind to mind. ⁵⁵Lying down and sitting, walking and standing, talking, playing, eating and the rest, they went about as a pair among the rows of trees, and had no care. ⁵⁶Whatever she wanted, king, she who pleased him and whom he cherished, he brought that wish about for her, even at a cost, for he was not master of his senses.

⁵⁷The she-dove took her first pregnancy, and when the time came she laid eggs in the nest, faithful, with her husband beside her.