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Seat her beneath a peepul tree, Where swung her gurrah* mournfully, Filled with the cool and limpid wave, An offering o’er some dear one’s grave. At once Zilara caught the tone, And made it, as she sung, her own.


 * .—The Gurrah is the water-jar which the Hindoo women poise so gracefully on their heads. Heber mentions, that they hang gurrahs on the peepul, a species of sacred tree; and much planted about graves, that the spirits of the deceased may drink the holy waves of the Ganges.