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p. xi

	PAGE
A POLITICAL ALLIANCE	1
THE WAX OF A NEW MOON.
MANGO	13
PÁTALÍ	17
JASMINE	21
A FLOWERLESS DAWN	26
CHAMPAK	29
LOTUS	35
SHRÍPHALA	38
SHIRÍSHA	42
KADAMBA	45
AMARANTH	49
ASHÓKA	53
PALÁSHA	56
SHAMÍ	60

[To appreciate this anthology, the English reader should remember, that according to the Hindoos, flowers are not only the arrows of the God of Love, but the very stuff of which his bow is made: bees are his bowstring, and MADHU, or Spring, is his âme damnèe and sworn ally.]

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