Stood musing on the mountain height,

While grief and love that scorned control

Shook with wild storms the hero's soul.

Clear was the sky, without a cloud

The glory of the moon to shroud.

And bright with purest silver shone

Each hill the soft beams looked upon.

He knew Sugríva's heart was bent

On pleasure, gay and negligent.

He thought on Janak's child forlorn