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Canto 32 - Is it True?

Aura Hanuman’s made Seetha

Think in terms of sun at dawn

Peeping out of branching trees.

Stared then Seetha in wonder

Hanuman sighted in splendour.

Wondered in awe then Seetha

Who that wondrous vanar was.

As she was at loss to know

What to make of that visitor

Prayed she then Ram for guidance.

Stared as Hanuman at her long

In her awe then swooned Seetha.

Seetha at length pulled herself

Wondered whether she had a dream.

Looked then Seetha all over

Waking up though from her sleep.

Finding Hanuman staring her

Lost she consciousness at once.

Regained sense as she in time

Recalled she then that proverb

Portend simians ill in dreams.

Felt then Seetha to start with

Wink with none in lovelorn state

How she could have had a dream!

Since I tend to think of Ram

All the time with never a pause

What I heard that simian sing

Product could be of my mind.

Song as it’s that my heart sings

Seems my ears have probed inside.

But then it’s no illusion

Him I see in flesh and blood.

May god bless that what he said

Would come true to bring me cheer.