Canto XXV. Ráma's Speech.

Then Raghu's son, whose feeling breast

Shared the great woe that moved the rest,

Strove with wise charm their grief to ease

And gently spoke in words like these:

“You ne'er can raise the dead to bliss

By agony of grief like this.

Cease your lament, nor leave undone

The funeral task you may not shun.

As nature orders o'er the dead.