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vinda OF )ayadeva. Having Dipped into
this elegant poem, an noi willing 10
leaveit, until have taken a glance at all
IFS principal beauties. Thou wilt rcmcm-
Der, that we left Radha about TO bewaii
the delay of Criihna. Among other
pathetic ientiments, ihe utters the follow
ing:
The appointed mement is come; but
f1eri, alas! comes not TO the grove. The
coolneis OF this vernal night gives me pain
inffead OF retreihment: fome happier dam
lel enjoys my beloved Whit |, alas am
looking at the gems ofmy bracelets, which
are blackened byathelAamcs of my PATTON.
Seeing her DANIEL return without Crifh-
ma, her jealoufy rifles to phrenzy, and the
poet makes her behold, in Imagination,
her lover In the arms of a rival.
Yes; in habiliments becoming the
war of love, and with trefes, waving like
Howery banners, a daniel, more nlluymg
then Radba, enjoys tbe eon7uerer Of Mad
bn. Her form is TRANSPORTED by the
touch of her divine lover her garland
quivers over her fwelling boiom; her
face, like the moon, is graced with clouds
Of dark hair, and trembles while fhe quaas
the nettareous dew of his lips; the floats
on the waves of deiire, and cloies her eyes
dazzled with the blaze Of approaching Ca
ina. See how he kites the lip Of my rival
and imprints on her forehead an ornament
of pure mulS, black as the young antelope
on the lunar orb Now, like the hufband
of Reti, he fixes white bottoms on her dark
locks, where they CLEAN like Raihes of
lightning among the curled clouds. On
her breaits, like two ornaments, he places
firing of gems, like radiant conhel-
lation. Mark, how my foul, attracted
by his irreiifible charm, burfs from its
mortal frame, and ruihes to mix with It's be-
loved
Pierced by the arrows of love, fhe
pafied the night in the agonies of defpair,
and at early dawn thus rebuked her lover,
whom Che iaw laying profrate before her,
and imploring her forgiveness
" ALas! alas! Go Madbava ; depart,
o cslavi; .Lpeak mof the language Of guile;
folloqv her, @ hfas-eyed Cad, .ts!ioqv her
avbo .llpes thy care"
Having thus inveighed againa her
beloved, lhe fat overwhelmed iii grief, and
iilently meditated on his charms when
the DANIEL ioftly addrened her.
He is gone: the light air has waited
him away. Continue nor, re/ent/H 40
man, thy maigaaiion againf tie 6eQutDul
MadbaDa. Why fhouldef thou render
vain thofe round finooth Yates, ample and
ripe as the fruit of yon TaIa tree How
often have / faid, foriake not the bloom
Ing Heri!"
Crilhna, after fhort abfence, returns,
and by his eloquence, his fervor and praife
entirely appeafes the anger of Radha, A
mong other impallioned ientiments, he fays:
Thy lips are a Bandhujiva flower !;
the lu&re of the Madhuca beams on thy
cheek thine eyes out-lhine the blue lotcs;
thy noie is bud Of the Tia; the Cunda
blohom yields to thy teeth: thus the flow
cry ihafted god borrows from thee the
points of his darts, and fubdues the uni
verfe. Surely thou deicendeR from hea-
ven, O FENDER DANIEL, attended by com
pany of youthful goddehes and all their
beauties are. collected in thee"
" He fpake !; and feeling her appealed
by his homage, flew to his bower, clad in
a.gay mantle. The night now yelled all
vifblc objects and the DANIEL thus ex-
horted Radbq, while lhe decked her with
beaming ornaments:
Foilouo, gentk Radbica, f0llo1o The
foe IF Muffin: his difcourfe was elegantly
competed Of 4oIr phrafe,: he proltra,ed
himfeif at thy feet: and he now haitens to
his delightful couch, by yon grove Of
branching VanjOlas. The night now
drciles in habil;ments fit for fecrecy, the
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