These fiends who change their forms at will?

'Tis yours to say: your kin you meet;

A serpent knows a serpent's feet.

I weet not who he is: the sight

Has filled my spirit with affright.”

Some pressed round Sítá in a ring;

Some bore the story to their king:

“A mighty creature of our race,

In monkey form, has reached the place.

He came within the grove,” they cried,