Canto XXX. Hanumán's Deliberation.

The Vánar watched concealed: each word

Of Sítá and the fiends he heard,

And in a maze of anxious thought

His quick-conceiving bosom wrought.

“At length my watchful eyes have seen,

Pursued so long, the Maithil queen,

Sought by our Vánar hosts in vain

From east to west, from main to main.