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* breeze. She feels no flame from the gales of Malaya with Him, whofe 



* words are fweeter than the water of life. She derides the fhafts of foul- 



* born Ca'm a with Him, whofe lips are like a red lotos in full bloom. 

 4 She is cooled by the moon's dewy beams, while me reclines with Him, 



* whofe hands and feet glow like vernal flowers. No female companion 



* deludes her, while fhe fports with Him, whofe veiture blazes like tried 



* gold. She faints not through excefs of paffion, while fhe careffes that 



* youth, who furpaffes in beauty the inhabitants of all worlds. O gale, 



* fcented with fandal, whobreatheft love from the regions of the fouth, be 



* propitious but for a moment : when thou haft brought my beloved before 

 ' my eyes, thou mayfl freely waft away my foul. Love, with eyes like 

 « blue water-lilies, again affai Is me and triumphs 5 and, while the perfidy 



* of my beloved rends my heart, my female friend is my foe, the cool 

 ( breeze fcorches me like a flame, and the nectar-dropping moon is my 

 e poifon. Bring difeafe and death, O gale of Malaya! Seize my fpirit, 



* O God with five arrows ! I afk not mercy from thee •: no more will I 



* dwell in the cottage of my father. Receive me in thy azure waves, O 

 c iifter of Yam a, that the ardour of my heart may be allayed I* 



Pierced by the arrows of love, fhe paffedthe night in the agonies of 

 defpair, and at early dawn thus rebuked her lover, whom fhe faw lyino- 

 proftrate before her and imploring forgivenefs. 



' Alas! alas! Go, Madhataj depart, Ce'sav a ; /peak not the lan~ 

 < guage of guile; follow Her, lotos-eyed God, follow Her, who J ffeL thy 

 ? care. Look at his eye half-opened, red with continued waking*' 'through 

 ' the pleadable night, yet foiling ftill with affection for my rival I Thy 

 4 teeth, O cerulean youth, are azure as thy complexion from the kiffes, 



