Slapped his thighs and roared like clouds.
Stretched he full then his long tail
Jerked it like would eagle its prey.
Circled Hanuman his tail then
Looked that eagle-clawed serpent.
Set to take off on that flight
Stance he took for task that tough.
In that as he shrugged himself
Seemed he eager and vigorous.
Stared he long at his flight route
Deep breathed he for take-off then.
All set to go Hanuman then
Thought it fit to them address
Folks his who were so anxious.
Spoke he thus to assure them:
Won’t I dart like Ram’s arrow
To Ravan’s land there lay yonder?
No sooner than I set foot
Find I Rama’s spouse Seetha.
Were I to happen to fail there
Won’t I rush to heaven itself?
Were I to land in blind alley
Won’t I go back to Lanka?
Prevail I over Ravan then
And fetch Seetha unfettered
With him in tow but in chains.
As he took-off he declared
Comes it ever if to the brink
Uproot he would all Lanka
And bring it as gift to Lord Ram.
By the thrust of his take-off
Sucked in were trees into flight.
As he flew at jet speed then
Tailed him trees with birds on them
And buds that flowered in between.
In truck with him all of them
Seemed they relatives at send off.
Sal trees then too followed suit
Seemed he spearhead of large force.
With the flowers and birds in tow
Made then Hanuman wondrous sight.
In time weakened as the pull
Dropped all trees in those waters.
Covered as he by flowers and all
Hanuman flew then glowworm like.
As he shrugged off in mid-air
Fell some flowers on salt waters.
Turned as flower-bed sea that vast
Seemed it then like star filled sky.
Flowers of varied hues on him
Rainbow on move made him seem.
Sonic boom of Hanuman’s flight
Scattered flowers on those waters
Seemed then that sea sky at dawn.
Arms his outstretched in his flight
Looked like serpents with five hoods.
Filled his shadow shore to shore
Though he picked up Mach two speed.
Sparkled his eyes as in flight
Seemed some lava there in flow.
Wide open were his bright eyes
Seemed they sun ’n moon in skies.
With his rosy nose-tip then
Looked he like the setting sun.
In flight his tail that was long
Banner then of Indra seemed.
With the sparkling teeth of his
And the tail thus well coiled
Sun like aura Hanuman had.