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«:.%hs, :. flie (miles, flic mourns, flie weeps, (he moves from fide to fide, 



* ilie laments and rejoices by turns. Her abode is a foreft j the circle of 



* her female companions is a net j her fighs are flames of fire kindled in a 

 4 thicket; herfelf (alasl through thy abfence)is become a "timid roej 

 c -and Love is the tiger,- who fprings on her like Yam A, the Genius of 

 4 Death, So emaciated is her beautiful body, that even the light garland, 

 4 which waves over her bofom, flie thinks a load. Such, .O bright-haired 

 e God, is Ra'dha', when thou art abfent. If powder of fandal-wood finely 

 4 levigated be moiftened and applied to' her breafts, llieftarts, arid miftakes 



* it for poifon, ' Her fighs form a breeze long extended, and burn her like 

 s the flame, which reduced Canda'rpa to aflies. :Siie throws around her 

 a eyes, like blue water-lilies with broken (talks, dropping 1 lucid ftreams e 

 s Even her bed of tender leaves appears in her fight like a kindled fire. The 

 ' palm of her hand fupports her aching temple, motionlefs as the crefcent" 

 € rifing at eve. " Heri, Heri," thus in filerxe flie meditates on thy 



* name, as if her wiili were gratified, aiid fhe were dying through thy ab-' 

 6 fence. She rends her 'locks j flie pants j flie laments inarticulately ; flie 

 6 trembles j flie pines • fhemiifesj flie moves from place to place; flie 

 & clofes her eyes j flie falls y flie rifes again \ flie faints : ' in fuch a fever of 

 ' love, fhe may live, O celeftial phyfieian, if Thou adminifler the remedy % 



.* but, fhouldit. Thou be unkind, her malady will be defperate. Thus, O 

 6 divine healer, by the nectar of thy love mull Ra'dha' be reflored to 

 c health; and, if thou refufeit, thy heart muft be harder than the thunder^ 



* ftone. Long has her foul pined, and long has flie been heated with 

 8 fandal-wood, moon-light, and water-lilies, with which others are cooled % 

 s yet flie patiently and in fecret meditates on Thee, who alone canft relieve 

 e her. Shouldft thou be inconftant, how can flie, wafted as flie is to a flia*. 

 E dow 9 fuppor,t life a Jingle moment ? How can 'fliCj who lately could not 





