By chaste and holy vows restrained,

By reverend teachers duly trained.

When he his virtue's fruit should taste

He falls by sin and woe disgraced.”

Two words will all his answer be

When I pronounce the stern decree,

“Hence, Ráma, to the woods away,”

All he will say is, I obey.

O, if he would my will withstand

When banished from his home and land,