With blood from head to foot, and cried:

“What have I now to do with life

Or rescue of my prisoned wife,

When thus before my weeping eyes,

Slain in the fight, my brother lies?

A queen like Sítá I may find

Among the best of womankind,

But never such a brother, tried

In war, my guardian, friend, and guide.

If he be dead, the brave and true,