Renewed with tears his wild complaint:

“Thou, fairer than their bloom, my spouse,

Art hidden by Aśoka boughs.

Those blooms have power to banish care,

But now they drive me to despair.

Thine arms are like the plantain's stem:

Why let the plantain cover them?

Thou art not hidden, love; thy feet

Betray thee in thy dark retreat.

Thou runnest in thy girlish sport