96/107 _--on high the welcome clouds appeared_. The beauty of nature after the rainy season has refreshed the earth, is a favourite topic in Indian poetry. The Cloud Messenger, so gracefully translated by Mr.Wilson, is full of allusions to the grateful progress of the cloud, welcomed as it passes along by the joy of animate and inanimate beings. Compare, in the Hindu Drama, the Toy Cart, act v.] [Footnote 146: p.93.l.2._As though a pupil's hand accursed_. |