An ornament of price bestowed.

Then to the grove where Sítá lay

The lord of Lanká took his way.

Pale, wasted, weeping, on the ground

The melancholy queen he found,

Whose thoughts in utmost stress of ill

Were fixed upon her husband still.

The giant king approached the dame,

Declared in tones of joy his name;

Then heeding naught her wild distress