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Rh As consciousness came slowly back
 * He recognised his loving wife—

"Who was it, Love, through regions black
 * Where hardly seemed a sign of life

Carried me bound? Methinks I view
 * The dark face yet—a noble face,

He had a robe of scarlet hue,
 * And ruby crown; far, far through space

He bore me, on and on, but now,"—
 * "Thou hast been sleeping, but the man

With glory on his kingly brow,
 * Is gone, thou seest, Satyavan!

O my belovèd,—thou art free!
 * Sleep which had bound thee fast, hath left

Thine eyelids. Try thyself to be!
 * For late of every sense bereft

Thou seemedst in a rigid trance;
 * And if thou canst my love, arise,

Regard the night, the dark expanse
 * Spread out before us, and the skies."