{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry338.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry338.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry338.htm","text":"'With this and many a speech beside.\n My failing heart he fortified,\n \n \n With glorious hope my breast inspired,\n And to his holy home retired.\n I scaled the mountain height, to view\n The region round, and looked for you.\n In ceaseless watchings night and day\n A hundred seasons passed away,\n And by the sage's words consoled\n I wait the hour and chance foretold.\n But since Nis'\u00e1kar sought the skies.\n And cast away all earthly ties,\n Full many a care and doubt has pressed\n With grievous weight upon my breast.\n But for the saint who turned aside\n My purpose I had surely died.\n Those hopeful words the hermit spake,\n That bid me live for R\u00e1ma's sake,\n Dispel my anguish as the light\n Of lamp and torch disperse the night.'\n \u00a0\u00a0 He ceased: and in the V\u00e1nars' view\n Forth from his side young pinions grew,\n And boundless rapture filled his breast\n As thus the chieftains he addressed:\n 'Joy, joy! the pinions, which the Lord\n Of Day consumed, are now restored\n Through the dear grace & boundless might\n Of that illustrious anchorite.\n The tire of youth within me burns,\n And all my wonted strength returns.\n Onward, ye V\u00e1nars, toil strive,\n And you shall find the dame alive.\n Look on these new-found wings, and hence\n Be strong in surest confidence.'\n \u00a0\u00a0 Swift from the crag he sprang to try\n His pinions in his nativie sky.\n His words the chieftains' doubts had stilled?\n And every heart with courage filled.\u00a01b\n \n \n \n \n390:1 According to the promise, given him by Brahm\u00e1. See Book 1. Canto XIV.","title":"BOOK IV: Canto LXIII.: Samp\u00e1ti's Story.","type":"page"}