Are now defiled with many a stain.

And I the wretched cause why this

Falls on the prince whose right is bliss!

Ah me, that ever I was born

To be the people's hate and scorn!”

Thus Bharat cried: of anguish sprung,

Great drops upon his forehead hung.

He fell o'erpowered—his grief was such—

Ere he his brother's feet could touch.

As on the glorious prince he gazed