Where'er I look my very mind

No limit to the host can find.

Sure Bharat with some evil thought

His army to our land has brought.

See, huge of form, his flag he rears,

That like an Ebony-tree appears.

He comes with bonds to take and chain,

Or triumph o'er our people slain:

And after, Ráma will he slay,—

Him whom his father drove away: