Whose billows with a roar and leap

On the sea banks ware wildly hurled,—

The mirror of the mighty world.

There on the strand the Vánars stayed

And with sad eyes the deep surveyed,

Here, as in play, his billows rose,

And there he slumbered in repose.

Here leapt the boisterous waters, high

As mountains, menacing the sky,

And wild infernal forms between