Spoke words in answer fierce and keen,

Still on her evil purpose bent,

Wild with her rage and eloquent:

“What speech is this? Such words as these

Seem sprung from poison-sown disease.

Quick to thy noble Ráma send

And bid him on his sire attend.

When to my son the rule is given;

When Ráma to the woods is driven;

When not a rival copes with me,