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KARMAYOGIN.
CHITRANGADA.
-000And she with passion cried: "Do I remember Yes, I remeinber. What other thing can ! Retsember, till forgetfulness arrives?
endless inoments. O rainhaunted xhts. . When thou art far! And O intolerable, The grey anntere dinsomfortable dawn To which I shall awake alono! And yet This year of thee is mine until the end. 'The Gols demand the rest. With all toyself I loved thee, not an other women do, Piecoinexl, reluctantly, but my whole heart And being like a sudden spring broke forth In Howers and greenneas at my sungod's toweb. Ceding existence at thy feet. Therefore I praise my father's prescient lovu That kept me from the world for thee, sought Amid the rugged mountains and fenced in With barbarous in hospitable laws. Around the dying man the torches flared From pillar to weird pillar; and one discerned To fitful redness on the shadowy walls Stone visnges of grim un-Aryan gods.
The marble pallor of my father's face Joked strange w me in that unsteady glare, As if an alien's, and dresin fantasies Those figures seemned of Maniprian lurdy Strange-weaponed, rude, with faces fierce
And gnarled, Like those they worship. Unafraid I sted With grave and wide-orbed gaze contemplating "Their rugged pornp and the wild majesty Of that Inst soene around iny dying kire. Round the fierce circle to that audience called Entrusting one of each rough-fetitred lori. So were their thoughts conciliated : 50 Their stern allegiance was recured. He spoke. And, though of outward strength deprived, his
voice Ring clear yet as when o'er trumpets heard It guided battle. Warriors of ny Erst, Take then this small white-basoined queen of
Pours : For I am ended and the shadow falls. She is the stom from which your kings shall
grow Perpetual. Gnard her well lest Fate deceiver Permit unworthier to usurp my child Than the unconquerable seed of goods Oppose, oppose all alien entry here, Whether by forcu or guile the stronger corres, Sorry your bucklers close to overwhelm Thu invaler, il your deaf and pitilens en Against the wupplinnt and the guest. He wile Whou Fatu intends to bring shall break thrach
But the great name until his spirit passed. Then the grim lorda forgot their savage calm. A cry arone, "Our queen!" and I was caught From breast to breast of wild affection: all Crowded upon me kissing feet and hands, Recording silent onths of love. Secure, Alone in this wild faithful barbarous world, I ruled by workness over rugged heart, A little queen mured, -until at length Thou caidest. Ruinour and widemouthed alarni Running before thy chariot-wheels thou cannot Defeat and death thy envoys and a cry: () Manipuriana, Manipurians, arm! Some god incensed invades you.--surely wil Inconsed and fatal, for his bowstring huge Sounds like the crack of breaking workils and thick His arrows as the sleet descends of doom When the great Serpent waken in wrath. Behind. That cry the crash of hostile advent came, Thy chariot enked with mire and blood, it ri Bristling and shattered from the fight, thy sterils White with the spum of leagues, thongh yet,
they neighed Lusting for speed and battle, and in the car Thy grandiose form o'ertowering common inoull. While victory shone from eyes where thunder
couched Above his parent lightning. Swift to arins My warriors sprang, dismayed but faithful, swift Around me grow a hedge of steel. Enrnged, Thy coursers shod with wind rushed fooming on And in with crash and rumour storined the car To that wide stone-paved hall, there loudly paund, While thunderous challenge of the stamping
huoves Chined all the place. Clanging thou leapest
down, 1rjoon, Gandova in thy threatening grasp. 'Then beheld thy face, then rose, then stretched My arms out, pausing not to think what god (Tompelled me from my throne. But war carne in Between me and those sudden eyes. One bold Beyond his Ravage peers stood questioning forth: "Who art thou that with challenge insolent Intruding; from what land of deathles gone Storment with disallowed exulting wheels In white Chitrangada's domain ? To death Mun hiusten not so quickly, Aryan lord." Hero, thy look was calin, yet formidable, Replying, by thy nnger undisturbed. * To death I haste indeed, but not to mine. Nor think that Doom has claimed me for her own Because I mile confront you. For my name Ask the pale thousands whose swift-footed for Hardly escaped my single onset; ask Your famous chieflaitis uld on hill ur moor Upon my fatul route. Yet not for war I sought this region tur by duath equipped, Inhospitable people who deny The human bund, but s inan to nien Alone I caine and without need of fear, If fear were mine to feel. Nor trumpets blured My co ming nor battaliona strel entorced, Who claitned but what the common bond allown'.
To be continand AURID, G
The dangers threatened, hindrance interpwed, To grasp this prize, whether Ixtacou's clan Yield a new Rama or the Bhojn hear And raven for her beauty, Vrishny-born, Or else some lion's whelp of those who lair In Hustina tho proud." He spoke no more
