Canto LII. The Crossing Of Gangá.

Soon as the shades of night had fled,

Uprising from his lowly bed,

Ráma the famous, broad of chest,

His brother Lakshmaṇ thus addressed:

“Now swift upsprings the Lord of Light,

And fled is venerable night.

That dark-winged bird the Koïl now

Is calling from the topmost bough,

And sounding from the thicket nigh