To look on Ráma's face than he.

As, speeding on, the spot he neared,

Amid the hermits' homes appeared

His brother's cot with leaves o'erspread,

And by its side a lowly shed.

Before the shed great heaps were left

Of gathered flowers and billets cleft,

And on the trees hung grass and bark

Ráma and Lakshmaṇ's path to mark:

And heaps of fuel to provide