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port, thus meditated on her charms in his heavenly mind : * Though her 

 ■« locks be diffufed at random, though the luftre of her lips be faded, 

 4 though her garland and zone be fallen from their enchanting Rations, and 

 •' though the hide their places with her hands, looking toward me with 



* bafhful iilence, yet even thus difarranged, (he fills me with extatick de- 



* .light.' But Ra'dha', preparing to array herfelf, before the company of 

 nymphs could fee her confufion, fpake thus with exultation to her obfequi- 

 ous lover. 



8 Place, O Ton of Yadu, with fingers cooler than fandal-wood, place 

 a a circlet of mufk on this breaft, which refembles a vafe of confecrated 

 - 4 water crowned with frefli leaves, and fixed near a vernal bower to propi- 

 4 fciate the God of Love. Place, my darling, the glofly powder, which 



* would make the blacker! bee envious, on this eye, whofe glances are kee- 



* ner than arrows darted by the hufband of Reti. Fix, O accomplifned 

 9 youth, the two gems, which form part of love's chain, in thefe ears, 

 ■* whence the antelopes of thy eyes may run downwards and fport at plea- 

 4 fure. Place now a frefh circle of mulk, black as the lunar fpots, on the 

 4 moon of my forehead; and mix gay flowers on my trjffes with a pea- 

 6 cock's feathers, in graceful order, that they may wave like the banners of 

 4 Ca'ma. Now replace, O tender-hearted, the loofe ornaments of my 

 4 vcflurej and refix the golden bells of my girdle on their deftined Ration, 



* which refembles thofe hills, where the God with five marts, who ddtroyed 



* Sambar, keeps his elephant ready for battle.'.. While (he fpake, the 

 heart of Yadava triumphed - 3 and, obeying her fportful behefh, he placed 

 muiky fpots on her bofom and forehead, dyed her temples with radiant 

 hues, embellimed her eyes with additional blacknefs, decked her braided 

 :]hair and her neck with freih garlands, and tied on her wrifts the loofened 



