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ON SIAMESE LITERATURE. 



Lo Phamd- — The Burman Air. 



dmi tluoi pai wd/irr si kha ret 

 k/iam khet hoei tliaan la liaan phaa 

 sam roan run chun cliom, pMroni yaa 

 : maa hon rottliaa thdng sangong (kha) 



They were carried along the narrow pass — and over the various impediments. The august 

 pair were delighted with their excursion in the chariot. 



Chom Dona;. 



I select the following passage adapted to this air, because it shews 

 that the Siamese have some feeling of what constitutes beauty in 

 landscape. 



W \J vj — 



Man hhau lum naau |1 phana wet 



_ \j ^ u -J 



that phra net chom clian \\ sing khan 



laai yat sung yi-wn \\ am phan 



mi chu ngan ngu-um pJiaa \\ si la lai 



\j ^ — 

 bang pen hoei he-6 || ple-o plan 



chung chang lot Ian |1 ciian chat 



" Unnarut pursued his journey though valleys and magnificent forests, and over hills. 

 At every stage of his progress natural beauties rivetted his attention and were sources of delight 

 Here mighty peaks towering to the sky seemed as if just about to crush by their fall the kingly 

 cavalcade. There precipices disclosed their naked sides variegated by beautiful strata. Here a 

 horrid chasm yawned — there a narrow dell invited to repose — and now the ranges of mountains 

 receding behind each other displayed a fascinating diversity of light and shade." 



The following verse is accompanied by the air termed 



Chin hep dak mat— 'The Chinese pulling a flower." 



nang usd yawa yat |1 song saa7i 



daifang ma thu rot \\ phot chamaan 



\j ^ — ^ \j *j J 



nong khraan that || thatsa naa pai 



•J _ ^ - 



hen ton ni hhrot || sai thang 



chan chan:g mon thou H kwdng yai 



