From whom our bliss and honour spring.”

Obedient to his mother's hest

His father's feet he gently pressed

With twining arms and lingering hands:

“Father,” he cried, “here Angad stands.”

Then Tárá: “Art thou stern and mute,

Regardless of thy child's salute?

Hast thou no blessing for thy son,

No word for little Angad, none?

O, hero, at thy lifeless feet