Who loves not Ráma, true to death.

This day, O Queen, shalt thou behold

Birds, deer, and beasts from lea and fold

Turn to the woods in Ráma's train.

And naught save longing trees remain.”

Canto XXXVIII. Care For Kausalyá

Then when the people wroth and sad

Saw Sítá in bark vesture clad,

Though wedded, like some widowed thing,