Scarce could I move each stubborn horse:

Shedding hot tears of grief he stood

When Ráma turned him to the wood.[333]

As the two princes parted thence

I raised my hands in reverence,

Mounted my ready car, and bore

The grief that stung me to the core.

With Guha all that day I stayed,

Still by the earnest hope delayed

That Ráma, ere the time should end,