With love and passion sore distressed,

Afflicted, with her eyes bedewed,

To Ráma thus her speech renewed:

“Nay, Ráma, but my heart will break

If with these queens my home I make.

Lead me too with thee; let me go

And wander like a woodland roe.”

Then, while no tear the hero shed,

Thus to the weeping queen he said:

“Mother, while lives the husband, he