Safe as the truth of Scripture bent

By no close logic's argument.

Stay if thy courage let thee, stay

And meet me in the battle fray,

And thou shalt stain the earth with gore

Falling as Khara fell before.

Soon Ráma, clothed in bark, shall smite

Thee, his proud foe, in deadly fight,—

Ráma, from whom have oft times fled

The Daitya hosts discomfited.