And all their new born sheen display,

So flash your mighty swords inlaid

With burning gold on hilt and blade.

Why are you silent, heroes? Why

My questions hear nor deign reply?

Sugríva, lord of virtuous mind,

The foremost of the Vánar kind,

An exile from his royal state,

Roams through the land disconsolate.

I, Hanumán, of Vánar race,