Be sure the pride of Raghu's race

Will never stoop to such disgrace:

The lordly lion will not bear

That man should beard him in his lair.

Were all the worlds against him ranged

His dauntless soul were still unchanged:

He, dutiful, in duty strong,

Would purge the impious world from wrong.

Could not the hero, brave and bold,

The archer, with his shafts of gold,