With golden limbs and golden hue.

Where is my darling Sítá? speak

Before I rend thee peak from peak.”

The mountain seemed her track to show,

But told not all he sought to know.

Then Daśaratha's son renewed

His summons as the mount he viewed:

“Soon as my flaming arrows fly,

Consumed to ashes shall thou lie

Without a herb or bud or tree,