Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-21

CT pSlS mo thS iHouNh vi i>"e'
o lowing are among the fact paGages
"T11 he take reereation liz NY G5ieHee,
1lInM an ali around him, yrt m,y IlAI re-
m .n5c;s bim, whofc locks are decl:ca wi'h
he piunes of peacoeks, reipiendent with
many coloured moons, and who.e mantle
giealns with a dark blue cloud illuminated
with ra nbows. Bring him who formerly
lcpt on my boiom, to racliue with me OH
green bed of leaves juR gathered, while
his lip fheds dew, and my arms entold him
Bring him who formerly drew me hy Tx
locks "a his embrace, TO repole with NE
whofc feet ,inkle as they move, with ring
of gold and IF gems whole looiened zon
founds as it fails sand whoie limos are.
llender and flexible as The creeping plant.
Soft is the gale, which brea,hs over yon
clear pool, and expands the clu!tering bici
.foms of the volub!e Aioa: foft, yet griev
Gus TO me, is the abfence ofthe toe otMad-
hu. Delightful are the howers OF Amr
trees, on the mountain top, while The mur-
mur!ng bees pusiue their volup,uous toll
delightful, yet affecting to a,e, O friend,
is the abfencc OF the youthful Ceiava.''
Remorie in the mean time ieizes the
breaa of Cmifhna, whom the poet her
calls I" The Destroyer of Canfa. :" He leaves
the wanton theperdeiIes, begins a fruit
lefS fearch Tor Radha, and iea,ug himlt!f n
bower pours forth his lau,eu. a,ions.
"She is departed -Ge Jaw me, no doubt
frrcunied by the wanton lhepherdehes !:
me is me! BE feels a /1@<e Of mjured be-
sor, and Il departed IN svrufb. ieem to
behold her fac. with eye brows contract
ing themfely-s through her juit retent-
ment 1t re,tlnbles a irelh lo1os, e
which two back becs,sare hutterine.
Grant me but a fight OF thee, O lovely
Radhica, fol- my PATTON torments me. l
am not the terrible Maheia: garland of
water lilies, with fubtie threads, decks
my lhoulders not terpenis with twilted
folds: the blue petals of the Solos glitter
on my neck; not the azrrc CLEAN Of poi
ion: powdered ianda wood is fprinkled
on my limbs; NOT pale athes: O god OF
! love, wound me not again: hold not in
thy hand that lhait armed with an Amra
flower! My heart is already pierced by
arrows fromRadh;ca's eyes, black and keen
as thoic OF an antelope; her eyes are full
Of ihaf1" her eyebrows are bows. ]
nedita N her delightful embrace, on The
ravilhing chances darted from her eye, or
the fragrant lotos of her mouth, on hel
nectar dropping fpeech, on her lips, rud.
dy as the berries OF the Bimb,; yet even
my fixed meditation on l,lch an ailcmblage
of charms, encreafes, iriead OF alternating
| the raiieries Of feparation.
The female friend of Radha preEen,s
hcn-t before Chr,ihna, and relates in
charming trains the dlilrattion of her
friend feleGt only few paAages.
+" She declares the gale OF Maiaya to
be venom, and the iau>ial trees, througl,
which it has bred5hed, TO have been the
haunt Ct ierpentS. Thus, 0 Madbav4, i,
| h5e aDH,t7ed in lily ahfrace 4utb The pain,
| 1ob'co lave's darf las eecafoued: be, /aul
| is fxea oA thee. Her face is like water
lilly, veiled in the dew Of tears, and hef
eyes appear like the moon ecipfed her
felf ialas through thy abfence) is become
4 tlnIid roe; and love is the tiger who
iPrings on her like Yama, the genius of
death. Her ighs form breeze long ex-
tended, and burn aer like the fame which
reduced Candacpa to aihes. She throws
around her eyes ike blue a;er- lilies W i,h
broken talks, dropping lucid iirealns--
Even her bed Of lender leaves appears in
her fight like kindled fire. The palm
of her hand fupports Der aching temple,
motionleis as the crsltent riGng at eye.''
Crlihna tilen replies to the maid -
(" iiere haze chofn my abode: go
quickly to Rsdha foothc her with .aY
neIage and condatt her hither."
She haaene back and aljrencs her COM
paniop 10 the following very beanl,f,i