To Raghu's son he made reply:

“O Ráma, I will yield an eye.

So let me in thy grace confide

And live hereafter single-eyed.”

Then Ráma charged the shaft, and lo,

Full in the eye it smote the crow.

And the Videhan lady gazed

Upon the ruined eye amazed.

The crow to Ráma humbly bent,

Then where his fancy led he went.