Burst from her lips a wild lament

Her eyes o'erflowed, she groaned and sighed

And thus in trembling accents cried:

Canto XLVIII. Sítá's Lament.

“False are they all, proved false to-day,

The prophets of my fortune, they

Who in the tranquil time of old

A blessed life for me foretold,

Predicting I should never know