Their shelter and their home should be.

Canto LIII. Ráma's Lament.

When evening rites were duly paid,

Reclined beneath the leafy shade,

To Lakshmaṇ thus spake Ráma, best

Of those who glad a people's breast:

“Now the first night has closed the day

That saw us from our country stray,

And parted from the charioteer;