10° Gl'TAGO'VINDA; OR, 



6 -willflie conduct herfelf? How will fhe exprefs her pain in fo long a fepara- 



5 tion? What is wealth to me? What are numerous attendants? What are the 



6 pleafures of the world? What joy can I receive from a heavenly abode? I 

 e feem to behold her face with eye-brows contracting themfelves through 



* her jufl refentment: it refembles a frefh lotos, over which two black bees 

 4 are fluttering: I feem, fo prefent is fhe to my imagination, even now to 

 4 carefs her with eagernefs. Why then do I feek her in this forefi ? Why do I 

 4 lament without caufe ? O flender damfel, anger, I know, has torn thy 



4 foft bofom ; but whither thou art retired, I know not. How can I in- 



5 vite thee to return ? Thou art feen by me, indeed, in a vifion ; thou feem* 

 4 eft to move before me. Ah ! why doft thou not rufh, as before, to my em- 

 « brace ? Do but forgive me : never again will I commit a fimilar offence. 



* Grant me but afightofthee, O lovely Ra'dhic a' /for my paiTion torments 

 « me. I am not the terrible Ma he's a : a garland of water lilies with fubtil 

 4 threads decks my moulders ; not ferpents with twitted folds : the blue 

 f petals of the lotos glitter on my neck; not the azure gleam of poifon: 



* powdered fandal-wood is fprinkled on my limbs ; not pale afhes : O God 



* of Love, miftake me not for Maha'de'va. Wound me not again ; appro- 

 ' ach me not in anger; I love already but too paffionately ; yet I have loft 

 tf my beloved. Hold not in thy hand that fhaft barbed with an Amra flower ! 

 s Brace not thy bow, thou conqueror of the world ! Is it valour to flay one 



* who faints ? My heart is already pierced by arrows from Ra'dha"s eyes, 

 4 black and keen as thofe of an antelope; yet mine eyes are not gratified with 



* herprefence. Her eyes are full of fliafts ; her eye-brows are bows ; and the 

 1 tips of her ears are filken firings : thus armed by Ananga, the God of De- 



* -fire, flie marches, herfelf a goddefs, to enfurehis triumph over the vanqui- 



* flied univerfe. I meditate on her delightful embrace, on the ravifhing glan- 

 e ces darted from her eye, on the fragrant lotos of her mouth, on her ne&ar- 



