{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry329.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry329.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry329.htm","text":"These V\u00e1nar hosts with one accord\n Will quit thee for their lawful lord,\n And turn again with thirsty eyes\n To wife and babe and all they prize.\n Thou in the lonely cavern left\n Of followers and friends bereft,\n Wilt be in all thy woe, alas,\n Weak as a blade of trembling grass:\n And Lakshman's arrows, keen and fierce\n From his strong bow, thy heart will pierce.\n But if in lowly reverence meek\n Sugr\u00edva's court with us thou seek,\n He, as thy birth demands, will share\n The kingdom with the royal heir.\n Thy loving kinsman, true and wise,\n Looks on thee still with favouring eyes.\n Firm in his promise, pure is he,\n And ne'er will vex or injure thee.\n He loves thy mother, lives for her\n A faithful friend and worshipper.\n That mother's love thou mayst not spurn:\n Her only child, return, return.'","title":"BOOK IV: Canto LVI:","type":"page"}