Sudhalahari 5

5

nirbhidye kṣmāruhāṇāmatighanamudaraṃ yeṣu gotrāṃ gateṣu drādhiṣṭhasvarṇadaṇḍabhramabhṛtamanasaḥ saṃnidhitsanti pādān /
yaiḥ saṃbhinne dalāgrapracalahimakaṇe dāḍimībījabuddhyā cañcūcāñcalyamañcanti ca śukaśiśavasteṃ 'śavaḥ pāntu bhānoḥ //

When they reach the earth having pierced the extremely dense center of trees, people position their feet thinking them to be very long golden staffs; / and when a moving drop of dew on the tip of a petal is struck by them, young parrots move their beaks restlessly mistaking it for a pomegranate seed—may those rays of the Sun protect you!