Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.533

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The twilight glow is fading far
And stains the west with blood-red light . . .
The womb of night envelops slow
The world with darkness vast and black . . .
Moon-fingers move the black, black hair
Of night into its proper place,
Who shuts her eyes, the lilies fair,
As he sets kisses on her face.
*Kumāra-Sambhava* of Kālidāsa.—A. W. Ryder.