O woman well set free! how free am I,
How thoroughly free from kitchen drudgery!
Me stained and squalid ‘mong my cooking pots
My brutal husband ranked as even less
Than the sunshades he sits and weaves always.
Purged now of all my former lust and hate, I dwell, musing at ease beneath the shade
of spreading boughs—O, but ‘tis well with me!
Translated from the Pali by Margaret Macnicol