The worm gnaws on as if ’twould ne’er relent.”
He prayed and wept. Response came from above—
A woman’s voice replied with pitying love.
Up started he—“Hush! hush! thou knowest not,
But I know who thou art. O bitter lot!
To jealous frenzy I became a slave
And vilely slew my brother true and brave,
Thus casting o’er my sister’s life a blight.
Still mad with rage and lost to sense of right,
I crushed my elder brother in my wrath;