And I, consenting to the prayer,

Will make thee, darling, Regent Heir.

Dread visions, each returning night,

With evil omens scare my sight.

Red meteors with a fearful sound

Shoot wildly downward to the ground,

While tempests lash the troubled air;

And they who read the stars declare

That, leagued against my natal sign,

Ráhu,[265] the Sun,[266] and Mars combine.