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THE RÁMÁYAN OF VÁLMÍKI, VOL. III - Gujarat Knowledge Centre

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. The<br />

Canto LIl. <strong>THE</strong> R/tM^YAN. 24f<br />

With Kama's Sitd as his prize,<br />

Justice and truth have vanished hence,<br />

Honour and right and innocence :<br />

Thus rose the cry of wild despair<br />

From spirits as they gathered there.<br />

In trembling troops in open lawns<br />

Wept, wild with woe, the startled fawns.<br />

And a strange terror changed the eyes<br />

They lifted to the distant skies.<br />

-On silvan Gods who love the dell<br />

A sudden fear and trembling fell.<br />

As in the deepest woe they viewed<br />

lady by the fiend subdued.<br />

Still in loud shrieks was heard afar<br />

That voice whose sweetness naught could mar,<br />

While eager looks of 'fear and woe<br />

She bent upon the earth below.<br />

The lady of each winning wile<br />

With pearly teeth and lovely smile.<br />

Seized by the lord of Lanka's isle,<br />

Looked down for friends in vain.<br />

She saw no friend to aid her, none,<br />

J^ot Bdma nor the younger son<br />

Of Dasaratha, and undone<br />

She swooned with fear and pain,

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