The utter ruin of my line,

What wrong have I or Ráma done?

Speak murderess, speak thou wicked one,

Seeks he not evermore to please

Thee with all sonlike courtesies?

By what persuasion art thou led

To bring this ruin on his head?

Ah me, that fondly unaware

I brought thee home my life to share,

Called daughter of a king, in truth