My Sítá's earrings dropped with gold.

Here lie her garlands torn and rent,

Here lies each glittering ornament.

O look, the ground on every side

With blood-like drops of gold is dyed.

The fiends who wear each strange disguise

Have seized, I ween, the helpless prize.

My lady, by their hands o'erpowered,

Is slaughtered, mangled, and devoured.

Methinks two fearful giants came