The RÁMÁYAN of VÁLMÍKI - Part 2 - 29

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29Canto XXIX. Sítá's Appeal.Thus Ráma spake. Her lord's address The lady heard with deep distress, And, as the tear bedimmed her eye, In soft low accents made reply: “The perils of the wood, and all The woes thou countest to appal, Led by my love I deem not pain; Each woe a charm, each loss a gain. Tiger, and elephant, and deer, Bull, lion, buffalo, in fear, Soon as thy matchless form they see, With every silvan beast will flee. With thee, O Ráma, I must go: My sire's command ordains it so. Bereft of thee, my lonely heart Must break,