Impending overhead.

Then soon as those accursed two

Who showered down blood be spied,

Thus to his brother brave and true

Spoke Ráma lotus-eyed:

“Now, Lakshmaṇ, thou these fiends shalt see,

Man-eaters, foul of mind,

Before my mortal weapon flee

Like clouds before the wind.”

He spoke. An arrow, swift as thought,