Canto LXIV. Dasaratha's Death.

The son of Raghu to his queen

Thus far described the unequalled scene,

And, as the hermit's death he rued,

The mournful story thus renewed:

“The deed my heedless hand had wrought

Perplexed me with remorseful thought,

And all alone I pondered still

How kindly deed might salve the ill.

The pitcher from the ground I took,