"C J, G I' T A G o' V I N D A ; O R, 



' to 'ale nectar from thy lip. Deign to redore thy (lave, who will Bend 5 



1 before the lotos of thv foot, and prefs it to his irradiated bofom ; aflave, 



6 who acknowledges himfelf bought by thee for a fingle glance from thy 



s eye, and a tofs of thy difdainful eyebrow. 1 



She ended j and Radha' with timid joy, darting her eyes on Go vinda, 

 while me muflcdly founded, the rings of her ankles and the bells of her 

 zone, entered the myilick bower of her only beloved. There /he beheld 

 her Ma'dhava, xoho delighted in her alone ; who fo long had fighed for her 

 embrace; and whofe countenance then gleamed with txcejjive rapture: his heart 

 was agitated by her fight, as the waves of the deep are affected by the lunar 

 orb. His azure breafl glittered with pearls of unblemifhed luflre, like the 

 full bed of the cerulean Yamuna interfperfed with curls of white foam. From 

 his graceful waift flowed a pale yellow robe, which refembled the golden 

 duft of the water-lily fcattered over its blue petals. His paffion was infla- 

 med by the glances of her eyes, which played like a pair ot water-birds 

 with azure plumage, that fport near a full-blown lotos on a pool in the 

 feafon of dew. Bright ear-rings, like two funa, difplayed in full. expan- 

 sion the flowers of his cheeks and lips, which gliMened with the liquid radi- 

 ance of fmiles. His locks, interwoven with bloflbms, were like a. cloud 

 variegated with moon beams i and on his forehead Ihone a circle of odorous 

 oil, extracted from the fandal of Malaya, like the moon jufl appearing on 

 the duiky horizon j while his whole body feemed in a flame from the blaze 

 of unnumbered gems.. Tears of tranfport gumed in a ftream from the full 

 eyes of Ra'dha\ and their watery glances beamed on her befl beloved- 

 Even (ham-, which before had taken its abode in their dark pupils, was 

 itfelf afhamed and departed, when the fawn- eyed Ra'd.ha\ gazed on the 

 brightened face of Cr.ishn a, while me palled by the foft edge of bi& 



