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 95 Literary Gazette, 14th December, 1822, Pages 793-794

ORIGINAL POETRY. FRAGMENTS IN RHYME. VII. - Manmadin, the Indian Cupid, floating down the Ganges.*

There is a darkness on the sky, And the troubled waves run high, And the lightning flash is breaking, And the thunder peal is waking; Reddening meteors, strange and bright, Cross the rainbow's timid light, As if mingled hope and fear, Storm and sunshine, shook the sphere. Tempest winds rush fierce along Bearing yet a sound of song; Music's on the tempest's wing, Wafting thee, young ! Pillowed on a lotus flower, Gathered in a summer hour, Rides he o'er the mountain wave Which would be a tall ship's grave! At his back his bow is slung, Sugar-cane, with wild bees strung,— Bees born with the buds of spring, Yet with each a deadly sting;—