The Day-God garlanded with light.

On, ever on we urged our way

Where fields of ether round us lay,

Till, by the fervent heat assailed,

My brother's pinions flagged and failed.

I marked his sinking strength, and spread

My stronger wings to screen his head,

Till, all my feathers burnt away,

On Vindhya's hill I fell and lay.

There in my lone and helpless state