Shatakatraya 2.55

2.55

By a very long, trembling, curving, radiant, hooded serpent / possessing the luster of a blue lotus, I was bitten, not merely looked upon by her eye! / When bitten [by a snake], there are physicians everywhere, generally seeking money and duty; / but for me, struck by the glance of a lovely-eyed woman, there is neither doctor nor medicine.