194 Gl'TAGO'VlNDA; O R y 



* mull tread* Leave behind' thee, O friend, the ring which tinkles on thy 

 4 delicate ankle, when thou fporteft in the dance ; haffily caft over thee 



* thy azure mantle, and run to the gloomy bower. The reward of thy 



* fpeed, O thou: who fparkleff, like lightning, will be to fliine on the blue . 



* bofom of Mxjra'ri, which refembles a vernal cloud, decked with a 



* firing of pearls like a flock of white water-birds fluttering in the air. 

 4 Difappoint not, O thou lotos-eyed, the vanquisher of Madhu ; accom- 



* plifli his defire; but go quickly: it is night, and the night alfo will 

 4 quickly depart. Again and again he fighs ; he looks around ; he re- 

 -enters the arbour j he can fcarce articulate thy fweet name; he again 

 fc fmooths his flowery couch j he looks wild ; he becomes frantick : thy 

 4 beloved will perifh through defire. The bright-beamed God finks in the 

 4 welt, and thy pain of reparation may alfo be removed: the blacknefs of 



* the night is increafed, and the paffionate imagination of Go'vinda has 

 *■ acquired additional gloom. My addrefs to thee has equalled in length 

 *■ and in fweetnefs the fong of the €dcila: delay will make thee miferable, 

 *■ O my beautiful friend. Seize the moment of delight in the place of 



* aiTignation with the fon of De'vaci", who defcended from heaven to 

 s remove the burdens of the univerfe ; he is a blue gem on the forehead of 

 4 the three worlds, and longs to Up honey, like the bee,, from the fragrant 



* lotos of thy cheek.* 



But the felicitous maid, perceiving that Ra'd ha' was unable through 

 debility to move from her arbour of flowery creepers, returned to Go'v ind a„ 

 who was himfelf difordered with love, and thus defcribed her Situation : 



* She mourns 3 . Jovereign of the world, in her verdant Bower ; fhe looks 



* eagerly on all fides in hope of thy approach - s then, gaining flrength from 



