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Literary Gazette, 14th December, 1822, Pages 793-794
ORIGINAL POETRY.
FRAGMENTS IN RHYME.
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 Manmadin!
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;—
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*Camdeo, or Manmadin, the Indian Cupid, is pictured in Ackermann's pretty work on Hindostan in another form. He is riding a green parrot, his bow of sugar cane, the cord of bees, and his arrows all sorts of flowers; but one alone is headed, and the head covered with honey-comb. - ↑ This poem appears in The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (1824)
