Where leafy boughs to shade them twined.

Canto XLIX. Angad's Speech.

Then Angad spake: “We Vánars well

Have searched each valley, cave, and dell,

And hill, and brook, and dark recess,

And tangled wood, and wilderness.

But all in vain: no eye has seen

The robber or the Maithil queen.

A dreary time has passed away,