Book, Chapter

 1   2, 2|        our inmost wishes send,~May the good and godlike Rama
 2   2, 4|       father, younger children may not reign,~Bharat barred
 3   2, 6|    world in darkness, rainless may the harvests thrive,~But
 4   2, 6| heedless of the lapse of time,~May a sinful monarch perish
 5   2, 7|       thee, Rama, cruel vow he may not speak,~I have spoke
 6   3, 1|  follows where her wedded lord may lead,~In the banishment
 7   3, 5|   night the silent chariot, we may travel fast and far,~So
 8   3, 5|       true and faithful people may not ask his woe to share!"~
 9   3, 6|    banished Sita bows to thee.~May my lord return in safety,
10   3, 6|  unseen dwellers on thy shore,~May my lord return in safety,
11   3, 6|    spot where hid in jungle we may pass these years in peace."~"
12   3, 7|       forest's darksome shade,~May he safely reach Ayodhya,
13   3, 7|    from the woods returning he may see his home again,~Grant
14   3, 7|     honoured by his kinsmen he may rule his loving men!~On
15   3, 8|       feeble father's failings may not wound thy filial heart,~
16   4, 1|   suited for a hermit's rite.~"May the scene," so Bharat uttered, "
17   4, 2| holiest feelings prove!~"But I may not," answered Rama, "seek
18   4, 2|   father's mandate duteous son may not disown,~And I may not,
19   4, 2|      son may not disown,~And I may not, gentle brother, break
20   4, 2|   father's mandate duteous son may not recall!"~
21   4, 3|   father's mandate duteous son may not recall!~
22   4, 4|        and promise and my word may not unsay,~Fourteen years
23   4, 4|   father's mandate duteous son may not recall!"~
24   4, 5| frontiers keep.~List! the Moon may lose his lustre, Himalaya
25   5, 2|     consort, farther still she may not roam,~Holier were this
26   5, 2|        Sita, farther still she may not roam!~Not unknown to
27   5, 3|       sweet and soft-eyed Sita may repose in sylvan bliss,~
28   5, 4|    shaken by a brother's love,~May we meet again our brother,
29   6, 4|     mandate still I own,~And I may not leave thee, Lady, in
30   6, 4|    this cottage stay,~Lakshman may not leave thee, Lady, for
31   6, 4|       pained and aching sight,~May I see thee by thy Rama,
32   6, 5|        or sweet Fruition, what may be thy sacred name!~On thy
33   6, 5| lineage, heaven-descended! who may be thy parents high,~Rudras
34   7, 3|       a younger's haugty scorn~May not, shall not, tender Tara,
35   7, 4|  sacred confines banished Rama may not stand,~Friend and comrade,
36   9, 7|      right and true from wrong may know,~Faithful to his race
37   9, 8|       Daityas fame of Indrajit may know,~And he yields not,
38   9, 9|     foemen,--brother's blood I may not shed,--~Other Raksha
39  11, 1|       of our sins and virtues, may this Fire protect my fame!~
40  11, 1|       of our sins and virtues, may this Fire protect my fame!~
41  11, 1|       of our sins and virtues, may this Fire protect my fame!"~
42  12, 3|        Scarce I know who these may be,~Eighteen thousand golden
43  12, 4|    soul! before these monarchs may she yet her virtue prove,~
44  12, 4|       soul! before my subjects may her truth and virtue shine,~
45  12, 4|        Rama's heart and empire may she once again be mine!"~
46  12, 5|     this deed of sinful pride,~May my Sita prove her virtue,
47 Epi   |        by a comparison of what may be considered parallel passages
48 Epi   |      ideals in the present day may not be the ideals of the
49 Epi   |        life. The ancient ideal may seem to us far-fetched in
50 Epi   |      and in 84 short sections, may possibly receive a hearing,