With battle-cry and shout and threat.

Then Ráma saw Sugríva quail,

Marked his worn strength grow weak and fail.

Saw how he turned his wistful eye

To every quarter of the sky.

His friend's defeat he could not brook,

Bent on his shaft an eager look,

Then burned to slay the conquering foe,

And laid his arrow on the bow.

As to an orb the bow he drew