On the king's sons and burn them all.

This cleaving of the earth his eye

Foresaw in ages long gone by:

He knew with prescient soul the fate

That Sagar's children should await.”

The Three-and-thirty,[187] freed from fear,

Sought their bright homes with hopeful cheer.

Still rose the great tempestuous sound

As Sagar's children pierced the ground.

When thus the whole broad earth was cleft,