Book, Chapter

 1   1, 4| saintly Janak, greeted by his children bold,~On Mithila's tower
 2   1, 7|    honoured elders, blest the children with their love,~And with
 3   2, 1|      But of all his righteous children righteous Rama won his heart,~
 4   2, 2|        Nursed my people as my children, free from passion, pride
 5   2, 2|       car,~As a father to his children to his loving men he came,~
 6   2, 3|    Rama, Regent Heir,~And the children by the roadside lisped of
 7   2, 3|       Troops of men and merry children laboured with a loving care,~
 8   2, 4|  succeeds his father, younger children may not reign,~Bharat barred
 9   3, 5|     have left their homes and children, followed us with loyal
10   3, 8|    Banished are the guiltless children and thy lord and king is
11  11, 4|       their loving greetings, children with their joyous cry,~Tottering
12  12, 2|       thirst and toil,~Gentle children of the forest, unknown strangers
13  12, 2|       darksome forests dwell,~Children of the wood and mountain,
14  12, 3| thousand golden pieces be the children -minstrels' fee!"~"Not so,"
15  12, 3|    Not so," answered thus the children, "we in darksome forests
16  12, 3|      beseem not well!"~"Noble children!" uttered Rama, "dear to
17  12, 5|   gloomy jungle were my royal children born,~Help me, Gods, to
18 Epi   |      age--~As a father to his children to his loving men he came,~