Mocks her[921] whom Maya framed of old.

Faultless in form, how firmly tread

Her feet whose soles are rosy red!

Ah, as I gaze her beauty takes

My spirit, and my passion wakes.

Looking for Ráma far away

She sought with tears a year's delay

Nor gazing on her love-lit eye

Could I that earnest prayer deny.

But baffled hopes and vain desire