This counsel of ignoble fear?

A scion of our glorious race

Should ne'er conceive a thought so base,

But one mid all our kin we find,

Vibhishaṇ, whose degenerate mind

No spark of gallant pride retains,

Whose coward soul his lineage stains.

Against one giant what can two

Unhappy sons of Raghu do?

Away with idle fears, away!