What joyful rite the morn will see.

So turned he to her bower to cheer

With the glad news his darling's ear.

Majestic, as the Lord of Night,

When threatened by the Dragon's might,

Bursts radiant on the evening sky

Pale with the clouds that wander by,

So Daśaratha, great in fame,

To Queen Kaikeyí's palace came.

There parrots flew from tree to tree,