The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
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My Prince, my dauntless Nala--seen that lord
Whom Damajanti loves and his foes fear. In Maghas' epic, _The Death of Sisupala_, plants and animals lead the same voluptuous life as the 'deep-bosomed, wide-hipped' girls with the ardent men. 'The mountain Raivataka touches the ether with a thousand heads, earth with a thousand feet, the sun and moon are his eyes. When the birds are tired and tremble with delight from the caresses of their mates, he grants them shade from lotos leaves. Who in the world is not astonished when he has climbed, to see the prince of mountains who overshadows the ether and far-reaching regions of earth, standing there with his great projecting crags, while the moon's sickle trembles on his summit?' In Kalidasa's _Urwasi_, the deserted King who is searching for his wife asks the peacock: Oh tell, If, free on the wing as you soar, You have seen the loved nymph I deplore-- You will know her, the fairest of damsels fair, By her large soft eye and her graceful air; Bird of the dark blue throat and eye of jet, Oh tell me, have you seen the lovely face Of my fair bride--lost in this dreary wilderness? and the mountain: |
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