And burning tears both brothers showered,

For double pain and anguish pressed

Upon the patient hero's breast.

The solitary bird he eyed

Who in the lone wood gasped and sighed,

And as again his anguish woke

Thus Ráma to his brother spoke:

“Expelled from power the woods I tread,

My spouse is lost, the bird is dead.

A fate so sad, I ween, would tame