The Royal Ascetic And The Hind.

"Part I.     Deep in the forest shades there dwelt     A Muni and his wife,     Blind, gray-haired, weak, they hourly felt     Their slender hol"

""Ho! Master of the wondrous art!     Instruct me in fair archery,     And buy for aye,--a grateful heart     That will not grudge to give thy f"

"Savitri was the only child     Of Madra's wise and mighty king;     Stern warriors, when they saw her, smiled,     As mountains smile to see th"

"Near Hastings, on the shingle-beach,     We loitered at the time     When ripens on the wall the peach,     The autumn's lovely prime.     Far"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"