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We might almost compare these lines with the well-known passage 

 of Moore. 



"And as I watch the line of light that plays 

 Far o'er the hushed wave toward the gleaming west, 

 I long to tread that golden path of rays 

 And think 'twill lead to some bright isle of rest." 



" Yonder setting sun, bearing the day with him, plunges into the 

 ocean, and the horses of his chariot bend down their necks, their eyes 

 touched by the chowries in their ears and their manes pressed down 

 by the yoke."* 



This description of the westering sun driving " his downward team" 

 amplifies the idea in Ovid's lines, 



" Pronus erat Titan, inclinatoque tenebat 

 Hesperium temone fretum." 



" The western horizon wears a streak of the evening red, all the 

 rest of the sunshine being gone, as a battle-field displays a bloody 

 scimetar uplifted aslant. "f 



"Yonder moon, fairfaced one, is united to its constellation with 

 trembling light, as a bridegroom with his newly-won bride still 

 trembling with fear at her new lord. "J 



We do not remember to have ever seen before in Hindu poetry an 

 allusion to the phenomenon of the rainbow over a waterfall, such as 

 we find in the following lines. 



" As the sun sinks, destroying the connection of his rays with 

 the waterdrops, the cataracts of thy father Himalaya lose their rain- 

 bow-halo.'^ 



It would be premature to pass a definite judgment on the authorship 

 of the poem, until we have seen some of the other cantos. Dr. Aufrecht, 

 in his Catalogue, has passed an unfavourable report on them, " hi 



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