A foe too strong, my lord, for thee.”

Canto XVI. The Fall Of Báli.

Thus Tárá with the starry eyes[581]

Her counsel gave with burning sighs.

But Báli, by her prayers unmoved,

Spurned her advice, and thus reproved:

“How may this insult, scathe, and scorn

By me, dear love, be tamely born?

My brother, yea my foe, comes nigh