And none may with my bliss compete.”

Canto XLVIII. Indra And Ahalyá

When mutual courtesies had past,

Viśálá's ruler spoke at last:

“These princely youths, O Sage, who vie

In might with children of the sky,

Heroic, born for happy fate,

With elephants' or lions' gait,

Bold as the tiger or the bull,