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Widow

Show us your devotion

And throw yourself on your husband's pyre

Blushing bride

Is it your obligation

To carry out the ritual

And join him in the fire

Widow, burn

Are you honest

Are you a righteous woman

Then wear the fire

Or face the eyes of condemnation

Are you of value

A nonexistent burden

Or with grand veneration

Just immolate amid great fanfare

No pressure

Dutiful wife

The blazing fire turns

Flesh and bone to ash

Honourable sacrifice

Forever chaste

The blazing fire turns

Flesh and bone to ash

Purged of her sins

Forever chaste