Her uncle and her people shedding tears,

Her noble husband lying cold and still,

The story of her father's cruel death

Still ringing in her ears, she took farewell.

"Dear uncle and my faithful men! grieve not:

I see a cloud, now looming yonder there,

No bigger than the hand of man, that shall

Expand and rain and water to purge all

The land of th' innocent blood shed on it,

For mother India's cup of woe is full,