Whose impious glance on me was set?

Still moves that tongue that would not spare

The wife of Daśaratha's heir?”

Then, hissing like a furious snake,

The fiend again to Sítá spake:

“Deaf to all prayers and threats art thou,

Devoted to thy senseless vow.

No longer respite will I give,

And thou this day shalt cease to live;

For I, as sunlight kills the morn,