Because thy hand, that stayed for naught,

This awful wickedness has wrought,

And ruined him whom all held dear,

My bosom too is stirred with fear.

My father by thy sin is dead,

And Ráma to the wood is fled;

And of thy deed I bear the stain,

And fameless in the world remain.

Ambitious, evil-souled, in show

My mother, yet my direst foe.