The Hundred Verses of Amaru 1.78

1.78

aṅgānāmatitānavaṃ kathamidaṃ kampaśca kasmātkuto
mugdhe pāṇḍukapolamānanamiti prāṇeśvare pṛcchati |
tanvyā sarvamidaṃ svabhāvajamiti vyāhṛtya pakṣmāntara
vyāpī bāṣpabharastayā calitayā niḥśvasya mukto'nyataḥ ||45||(50)

“Why this extreme thinness of your limbs? Whence this trembling? Why, / innocent maiden, is your face with pale cheeks?” When her life's lord asks this, / the slender woman replied, “All this is natural,” and turning away, / sighing, released elsewhere a flood of tears that had spread within her eyelashes.