The pains of forest life to-day.

To-day her tender feet must tread

Rough rocky wilds around her spread:

No tilth is there, no gardens grow,

No crowding people come and go.”

The hero ceased: and Lakshmaṇ led

Obedient to the words he said:

And Sítá followed him, and then

Came Raghu's pride, the lord of men.

With Sítá walking o'er the sand