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Thy heart has entered, let thy feet go too!
Lo, Krishna! lo, the one that thirsts for thee!
Give him the drink of amrit from thy lips.

Then she, no more delaying, entered straight;
Her step a little faltered, but her face
Shone with unutterable quick love; and—while
The music of her bangles passed the porch—
Shame, which had lingered in her downcast eyes,
Departed shamed^[1] . . . and like the mighty deep,
Which sees the moon and rises, all his life
Uprose to drink her beams.

(Here ends that Sarga of the Gîta Govinda entitled
Radhikamilane Sanandadamodaro.)

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Hari keep you! He whose might,
On the King of Serpents seated,

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1. This complete anticipation (salajjâ lajjâpi) of the line—

   "Upon whose brow shame is ashamed to sit"

   —occurs at the close of the Sarga, part of which is here perforce omitted, along with the whole of the last one.