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MISCELLANEA. 



I. Six South-Indian A irs. 



HP HE Society is indebted to E. R. H., an accomplished lady, 

 JL for five of the South-Indian airs now, it is believed, for 

 the first time published. She took them down from the sing- 

 ing of her aya, a Tamil woman, named Annamma, and J. T. 

 Mayne, Esq., Organist of St. George's Cathedral, has been 

 good enough to arrange them so as to preserve their origi- 

 nal simplicity. Of the nine airs collected by E. R. H. No. 

 1 is stated to be ' A hymn sung by the Muhamadans when 

 Allah manifests himself to the people No. 2, c An Indian 

 song :' No. 3, ' A hymn in honour of R6ma :' No. 4, ' A 

 war cry of the Mahrattas when fighting against the English :' 

 No. 5, ' Chingara' Bangla, song composed in praise of 

 Murugappa Mudaliyar's Bungalow :' No. 6, ' A mother's 

 Lamentation on the death of her daughter:' No. 8, 'Dhobi's 

 song :' No. 9, 'A lamentation supposed to be sung by a 

 dove on her young being stolen from the nest.' 



The cradle song No. 6, has already been printed with words 

 by Monckton Milnes f (Lord Houghton)' entitled The In- 

 fant's Three Sabbaths, and an accompaniment by the Rev. 

 J. Griffiths, M. A., which the Editor has taken the liberty to 

 reprint here, 



The Tamil words to this song, in the Tamil character, are 

 as follows : — 



^/ssrearuLj frrrGeu 

 LDITl—ULjlTlTQeiJ, «F/r(gjg$ 3 

 LDlSlGsV, (S)l£!G<oV } & IT 



(<3R j$] (q3 err d Q & } &^(&czii> 



QsiTisS&)L-jJTITQ<SU, &tr(GT,g)j y 



Which is, being interpreted, 



" Swing, Baby, swing ! 

 Swan- dove, swing ! 

 House-pigeon, swing ! 

 Peacock, cuckoo, swing I 

 Cassia-flower, swing ! 

 Standing-lamp, swing ! 

 Temple-dove, swing ! 

 Swan, parrot, swing !" 



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