Oh! Majestic swan, what am I to tell?
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Oh! Majestic swan, what am I to tell?
Women of high rank do not feel,
It right to let their hearts reveal.
(Their secret desires)
Time and again my mind is on Nala-the much praised king,
his reputation and deeds cause my ears to pleasingly ring.
On thinking of his manliness, the love-lord’s arrows sting
my heart and makes me feel frail and a weakling.