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ON SIAMESE LITERATURE. 



Rdi — Tanau. 



" The Terinasserim Air" — adapted to verses thus reckoned 8-|-8 sylla- 

 bles 7+8, 8-j-9, 7 + 10, 8+9, 8+9. 



Scanned — 1 lam — Anapasst — Anapaest. 



2 Spond — Anap — Tribrach. 



3 Iamb — Iamb — Dactyl. 



4 Iamb — Amphibr Bacchic. 



In the same opera Unnari5t, the king, thus addresses his consort — 



To you I have ever been, and shewn myself to, be, ardently attached. Did I not for your 

 sake leave my family and country behind ? Time has glided delightfully and unperceived away 

 in your society, while an anxious and aged parent has been long lamenting in vain the absence 

 of her son ; even now she is overwhelmed with a thousand cruel doubts and apprehensions on my 

 account ; in the excess of her grief she beats her breast and, if not speedily relieved by my presence, 

 will die of despair and leave me to fruitless remorse. 



The queen makes a dutiful reply to this speech when again — 



The divine and majestic Unnar6t, ravished with the delicate and affectionate sentiments ex- 

 pressed by the Queen, embraced her and said — " You are the jewel on which my affections rest, 

 " the sanctuary of my love, the diamond pupil of my eye. Heaven is witness to the truth of what 

 " I have declared." 



The Queen's heart felt at this speech, as if it had been plunged into the water of life ; a deli- 

 cious coolness succeeded — accompanied by a multitude of blissful thoughts. With uplifted hands 

 she besought his Majesty to allow her in the meantime to return to her mother's house. 



O! rat. 



- ^ si; ^ ^ „ er3^-, 

 no-an naang usaa \\ maa rasi 



henong som-det (^clia) \\ phra cJion (Jia) nl 

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sokt khro-an khrdn || ram phan 

 hdi song saan saJot |1 rat (thof) chit (tra) 

 khit yaam mi yok || led sdk sdn 

 When the graceful Usa beheld her mother (by adoption,) she gave a loose to her ardent affec- 

 tion in Avords accompanied by tears — lamenting in terms of bitter grief the approaching separation. 



O ! Lau — Laos Air. 

 — - ^ . - -„ ^ 



chom ndng wai-yu-kd mdrai 



•J \j "J , 



fang rot phatclia ndt phra Butn 



