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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Song from the Lyric Act of the ‘Vikramorvaçī’

By Indian Literature

After the Translation of Karl Gustav Albert Hoefer

LITTLE bird, fair bird, give me my beloved again. Thou hast taken her beauty away. Thou hast seen her; the beauty thou wearest is hers.

Or has she turned into yon laughing brook? For its wavelets are her arching brows; the bright birds that swim on it are her girdle; its foam is her fluttering garment; and its tripping dancing gait is that of my beloved. Surely she has become yon brook.