While day by day the wild delight

Stayed vow austere and fervent rite

There as the winsome charmer wove

Her spells around him in the grove,

And bound him in a golden chain,

Five sweet years fled, and five again.

Then Viśvámitra woke to shame,

And, fraught with anguish, memory came

For quick he knew, with anger fired,

That all the Immortals had conspired