Canto XIX. Sítá's Fear.

Then o'er the lady's soul and frame

A sudden fear and trembling came,

When, glowing in his youthful pride,

She saw the monarch by her side.

Silent she sat, her eyes depressed,

Her soft arms folded o'er her breast,

And,—all she could,—her beauties screened

From the bold gazes of the fiend.

There where the wild she-demons kept