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* med like blue water-lilies, are become, through thy refentment, like pe- 



* tals of the crimfon lotos : oh I tinge with their effulgence tfcefe my dark 



* limbs, that they may glo vsrlike the marts of Love tipped with flowers. 



' Place on my head that foot like a frefh leaf, and (hade me from the fun ■ 



< of my paffion, v/hofe beams I am unable to bear. Spread a firing of gems 

 « on thofe two foft globes; let the golden bells of thy zone tinkle, and pro- 

 1 claim the mild edicl of love. Say, O damfel with delicate fpeech, (hall 



* I dye red with the juice of alaStaca thofe beautiful feet, which will make 

 •« the full-blown land-lotos blufh with fname ? Abandon thy doubts of my 

 4 heart, now indeed fluttering through fear of thy difpleafure, but hereafter 



< to be fixed wholly on thee • a heart, which has no room in it for another : 



* none elfe can enter it, but Love, the bodilefs God. Let him wing his 

 ■' arrows j let him wound me mortally : decline not, O cruel, ths pleafure 



* of feeing me expire. Thy face is bright as the moon, though its beams 

 ' drop the venom of maddening deftre : let thy nedareous lip be the char- 

 ' mer, who alone has power to lull the. ferpent, or fupply an antidote for his 

 ' poifon. Thy filence afflicts me : oh! fpeak with the voice of mufick, 



* and let thy fweet accents allay my ardour. Abandon thy wrath, but aban- 

 ' don not a lover, who furpafTes in beauty the fons of men, and who kneels 



before thee, O thou mod beautiful among women. Thy lips are a Bamihu- 



* jiva-fiowcr ; the lu fire of the Madhuca beams on thy cheek; thine eye 



* outlhines the blue lotos ; thy nofe is a bud of the Tila ; the Cunda-bloC 

 4 fom yields to thy teeth : thus the flowery-ihafted God borrows from thee 

 ' the points of his d tl rts, arid fubdues the umverfe. Surely, thou defcen- 

 ' dedif from heaven, O (lender damfel, attended by a company of youth- 

 ■* ful goddelfes ; and all their beauties are colle&ed in thee/ 



He fpake; and, feeing her appeafed by his homage, flew to his bower 



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