Rama Setu -1

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A good poetic and rhyming translation of a part of Valmiki Ramayana below. Translated in poetry by Ralph Griffith. Context is that Ram, Sita, Lakshaman and other are returning from Lanka to Ayodhya on Pushpak Vimana. Ram is pointing to Sita, different sights from Vimana as follows:

...
There gleams the margin of the deep,
Where, worn with toil, we sank to sleep.
Look, love, the unconquered sea behold,
King Varun's home ordained of old,
Whose boundless waters roar and swell
Rich with their store of pearl and shell.
O see, the morning sun is bright
On fair Hiranyanabha's height,
Who rose from Ocean's sheltering breast
That Hanuman might stay and rest.
<i><span style='color:red'>There stretches, famed for evermore,
The wondrous bridge from shore to shore.
The worlds, to life's remotest day.
Due reverence to the work shall pay,
Which holier for the laps of time
Shall give release from sin and crime.</i></span>
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This roughly corresponds to this part of Valmiki Ramayana:

एतत तु थृश्यते तीर्दं समुथ्रस्य वरानने
यत्र सागरम उत्तीर्य तां रात्रिम उषिता वयम
एष सेतुर मया बथ्धः सागरे सलिलार्णवे
तवहेतॊर विशालाक्षि नलसेतुः सुथुष्करः
पश्य सागरम अक्षॊभ्यं वैथेहि वरुणालयम
अपारम अभिगर्जन्तं शङ्खशुक्तिनिषेवितम
हिरण्यनाभं शैलेन्थ्रं काञ्चनं पश्य मैदिलि
विश्रमार्दं हनुमतॊ भित्त्वा सागरम उत्दितम
अत्र राक्षसराजॊ ऽयम आजगाम विभीषणः