Plain text of Hymn 36
1 To please us may the suitor come, O God, seeking this maid and bringing us good fortune. Approved by wooers, lovely in assemblies, may she be soon made happy with a husband.
2 As bliss beloved, dear to prayer, and stored by the Friend, with the truthfulness of God the Ordainer I seek a husband for her.
3 O God, may this woman find a husband. Then verily the Provider makes her happy. May she bear sons, chief lady of the household, blessed and bearing rule beside her consort.
4 As this lair, O Bountiful One, that is fair to look on was dear to wild things as a pleasant dwelling, so may this woman here be the darling of good fortune, loved by her lord and prizing his affection.
5 Mount up, embark on the ship of good fortune, the full, the inexhaustible, thereon bring hitherward to us the lover whom thou fain wouldst wed.
6 Call out to him, O Lord of Wealth! Make Thou the lover well-inclined. Set each on thy right hand who is a lover worthy of her choice.
7 Here is the bdellium and the gold, the unguent and the bliss are here: these bring thee to the husbands, so to find the man whom thou wouldst have.
8 May God the Light-giver lead and bring to thee the husband whom thy heart desires. O Plant, be this thy gift to her!