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9^S ANNUAL REGSITER, 1805. 



Yetlrielifcr lustres gild Avanti's* towers, 

 Where Vicramadyt + sways his subject powers. 

 See, round his throne what Arts and Graces bow ! 

 What Virtues diadem his godlike brow ! 

 In sacred band, nine hallow'd bards prolong 

 Unwearied warblings of accordant song : 

 So move the ninefold spheres + their radiant rounds. 

 With sleepless melodies of angel sounds. 

 But Fancy chief for Calidasa's Muse 

 From groves of Indra ^ steals celestial hues, 

 Hues II ever-blooming, with whose blushes sweet 

 Th' immortal Apsars tinge their snowy feet. 

 Haste, in sad pomp the tragic scene extend ; 

 Rise, weeping dames, and mailed chiefs ascend ; 

 There let Dushmanta's volant car advance, 

 And throne dominion on his ample glance ; 



And there, b}' Malini'sscquestcr'd stream, 



In Love's warm youth let softer virtue gleam, 



Now tlush'd with smiles, and bright in vernal glow, 



Now victim pale of solitary woe. 



Is there who knows how Love's soft thrilllngsburn, 



When Hope, half dubions, whispers sweet return ? 



O'er the llush'd cheek Mhat sudden blushes roll, 



When meeting eyes confess the mingling soul ? 



Is there whose anguish raonrns a hopeless fire, 



By sighs and tears consum'd of sad desire. 



Tears of the heart, that flow in secret there, 



And sighs just waked and smother'd by despair ? 



For these ascends the sympathetic strain, 



True to the joy and faithful to the pain ; 



For these the song shall stream from age to age, 



Their raptures kindle and their griefs assuage. 



Hail, happy years ! when every lyre was strung, , 



And every clime with mirth and music rung. 



While Asia's voice her Calidasa blest, 



Hark 1 kindred spirits answcr'd from the West. 



• The modern Oujein, the capital of the dominious of Scindia, the %vell-known 

 Muhralta chief. 



f Vkramadilya, the most celebrated of Indian kings. lie died B.C. 57. His 

 reign forms tiic tera from which the Hindoos calculate. 



I Novem tibi orbibiis, vcl potius globis, connexa sunt omnia. Ck. in Som. Scip- 

 Mikon sa^-s in his Arcades : 



I " when drowsiness 



Hath lock'd up moral sense, then listen I 



To the celestial Sirens' harmony, 



That bit upon the nine enfolded spheres, 



Andthose that hold the vital sl'cars. 

 § Inclru resides in the lower heavens, situated in the north pole. The Apsaras 

 art he damsels of his court. 



II The hint of this image is borrowed from the " Sacoutala, or Fatal Ring." 



