तो सों प्रभु जो पै कहूँ कोउ होतो। तो सहि निपट निरादर निसिदिन, रटि लटि ऐसो घटि को तो॥ १॥ कृपा-सुधा-जलदान माँगिबो कहूँ सो साँच निसोतो। स्वाति-सनेह-सलिल-सुख चाहत चित-चातक सो पोतो॥ २॥ काल-करम-बस मन कुमनोरथ कबहुँ कबहुँ कुछ भो तो। ज्यों मुदमय बसि मीन बारि तजि उछरि भभरि लेत गोतो॥ ३॥ जितो दुराव दासतुलसी उर क्यो कहि आवत ओतो। तेरे राज राय दशरथके, लयो बयो बिनु जोतो॥ ४॥
If anywhere there were another Lord like you, what lowly person would endure utter neglect, repeat your name night and day, and waste away like this? (1) The rain-cloud of compassion’s nectar-water that I ask for is truly found nowhere else. The fledgling chataka of my heart longs for the joyful water of love’s Svati rain. (2) If, under time and karma, some evil desire sometimes arose in the mind, it was like a fish dwelling joyfully in water: it leaps out, then in alarm plunges back into it. (3) How can all the concealment in servant Tulsi’s heart be spoken and come to an end? Yet, King Dasharatha’s son, in your realm people have reaped and sown without plowing. (4)