Anxiety and wild surmise;

Echoing with the cries of grief

Of sorrowing friends who mourned their chief,

Dejected, pale with deep distress,

Hurled from their height of happiness:

Such was the look the palace wore

Where lay the king who breathed no more.

Canto LXVI. The Embalming.

Kauśalyá's eyes with tears o'erflowed,