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Bright Mahadavi's h crimson star? 



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On pensile tendrils stray 

 Around the mango's ' stately trunk, 

 And with the hreezes play. 



Then, gentle naiad, kindly pour 



Thy vivifying dew; 

 And tint the flowers that kiss thy stream 



With beauty's loveliest hue! 



But the lov'd burr's k entwining trunk 

 Claims most thy fostering care; 



Emblem of God ! its out-stretch'd arms 

 Beneficence declare ! 



When Mitra 1 throws his powerful rays 



On every distant tree, . 

 My favor'd plants shall gaily bloom, 



And owe that bloom to thee. 



a Medhumadha, a water nymph in the Hindoo mythology. 



b Bulbul, the Indian nightingale. 



c Indra, god of the seasons. 



d Champa, a flower of great fragrance, growing on a large tree, similar to the magnolia 



glauca. 

 c A favorite shrub with the oriental ladies, who use the flowers for dying their nails and 



fingers of a lively red. 

 f Tulsee, a plant held sacred by the Hindoos. 

 « Mogree, a beautiful species of Arabian jessamine. 

 b Mahadavi, a most elegant crimson creeper; ipomea; often mentioned in the drama of 



Sacontala, and universally admired. 

 1 Mango ; esteemed the best fruit in Hindostan. 



k Burr or banian-tree. Ficus bengalensis ; a sacred tree of the Hindoos ; considered as em- 

 blematical of the Deity, from its out-stretching arms, and overshadowing beneficence. 

 1 Mitra, the sun, or solar deity of the Hindoos. 



