Failing in lowly reverence?”

One sage, o'er whom, exceeding old,

Had many a year of penance rolled,

Trembling in every aged limb

Thus for the rest replied to him:

“How could we, O beloved, blame

Thy lofty-souled Videhan dame,

Who in the good of all delights,

And more than all of anchorites?

But yet through thee a numbing dread