And overthrew their laughing foes.

While still rang out the general cry,

“King Rávaṇ and his fiends shall die,”

Still on, exulting in the pride

Of conscious strength, the Vánars hied,

And gazed where noble Sahya, best

Of mountains, raised each towering crest.

They looked on lake and streamlet, where

The lotus bloom was bright and fair,

Nor marched—for Ráma's hest they feared