Fell clear and loud, Spare, Ráma, spare.

Canto XXII. Ocean Threatened.

With angry menace Ráma, best

Of Raghu's sons, the Sea addressed:

“With fiery flood of arrowy rain

Thy channels will I dry and drain.

And I and all the Vánar host

Will reach on foot the farther coast.

Thou shalt not from destruction save