Canto VI. Rávan's Speech.

But when the giant king surveyed

His glorious town in ruin laid,

And each dire sign of victory won

By Hanumán the Wind-God's son,

He vailed his angry eyes oppressed

By shame, and thus his lords addressed:

“The Vánar spy has passed the gate

Of Lanká long inviolate,

Eluded watch and ward, and seen