204: Notices of Books connected with Sanskrit Literature. [No. 2, 
We might almost compare these lines with the well-known passage 
of Moore. 
And ns I watch the line of light that plays 
Far o’er the hushed wave toward the gleaming west, 
I long to tread that golden path of rays 
And think * twill lead to some bright isle of rest.” 
“ Yonder setting son, bearing the day with him, plunges into the 
ocean, ancl the horses of his chariot bend down their necks, their eyes 
touched by the chowries in their ears and tlieir manes pressed down 
by the yoke.”* 
This description of the westering sun driving “ his downward team” 
amplifies the idea in Ovid’s lines, 
<£ Promts erat Titan, inclinatoque tenebat 
Hesperium temone fretum.” 
“ The western horizon, wears a streak of the evening red, all the 
rest of the sunshine being gone, as a battle-field displays a bloody 
scimctar uplifted aslant.”t 
“ Yonder moon, 0 fairfaced one, is united to its constellation with 
trembling light, as a bridegroom with his newly-won bride still 
trembling with fear at her new lord.”J 
We do not remember to have ever seen before in Hindu poetry an 
allusion to the phenomenon of the rainbow over a waterfall, such as 
we find in the following lines. 
“ As the sun sinks, destroying the connection of his rays with 
the waterdrops, the cataracts of thy father Himalaya lose their rain¬ 
bow-halo.”§ 
Jt would be premature to pass a definite judgment on the authorship 
of the poem, until we have seen some of the other cantos. Dr. Aufrecht, 
in his Catalogue, has passed an unfavourable report on them, “ hi 
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