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Hide from my fellows my guilt, 
Keep me happy to-day,—and to-morrow 
Deal with me as Thou wilt. 
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Some trust their church or creed to hear them out. 
Some pray for faith, and tremble at a doubt. 
Methinks I hear a still small voice declare 
‘ The way to God is neither here nor there/ 
“ Further Proofs of the Polygamy of Kalidasa's Heroes ."— 
By G. S. Leonard, Assistant Secretary, Asiatic Society* Bengal. 
Babu Prannatk Pandit in a paper entitled ‘ Morals of Kalidasa/ 
published in Part I, No. 3, 1876, of the Asiatic Society’s Journal, has raised 
the question of the Monogamy of Kalidasa’s Heroes, from which Mr. Grierson 
of Bangpur has dissented, and in support of which opinion he has addu¬ 
ced some proofs. As I quite agree with Mr. Grierson on this point, I beg 
to produce some further proofs to show that the majority of Kalidasa’s 
Heroes practised polygamy. 
I begin with Dushyanta, and adduce the following passages from the 
drama of Sakuntala, in which he is a principal actor, and where Kalidasa the 
author has not scrupled to declare the polygamy of his hero, like that of the 
majority of Indian Princes, both in ancient and modern times. In the first 
place Dushyanta’s admiration of the surpassing beauty of the woodland mai¬ 
dens, viz., Sakuntala and her two companions, and his comparing them with 
