Canto XXXIX. Lanká.

They slept secure: the sun arose

And called the chieftains from repose.

Before the wondering Vánars, gay

With grove and garden, Lanká lay,

Where golden buds the Champak showed,

And bright with bloom Aśoka glowed,

And palm and Sál and many a tree

With leaf and flower were fair to see.

They looked on wood and lawn and glade,