Let us to-day this wood explore,

And, languor and despair subdued,

Purchase success with toil renewed.

Sugríva is a king austere,

And Ráma's wrath we needs must fear.

Come, Vánars, ye think it wise,

And do the thing that I advise.”

Then Gandhamádan thus replied

With lips that toil and thirst had dried;

“Obey his words, for wise and true