With even knots and piercing head

Each like a furious snake is sped;

With these, to-day, before thine eye

Shall, like a shattered mountain, lie

Báli, thy dread and wicked foe,

O'erwhelmed in hideous overthrow.”

He spoke: Sugríva's bosom swelled

With hope and joy unparalleled.

Then his glad voice the Vánar raised,

And thus the son of Raghu praised: