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2 igg AFGHAUN tOVE TAUL
3 fad ynAaf in .igikmioe of eiidil. a<ih^*s> aenUmcBts, ' till Door1[r^
4 *'liwmee,Wffl.«(MnpeHed bj her relations to marry a neighboiiii]ig'dbii£
5 Xbe gffif^ww of her lover may be imagined, and his lament«tioni>
6 fnd tbtfi letters that famed between him and Doorkhaunee, fill a
7 laige^pKt of the poem ; till at last, after overoommg nnmberleBs ob-
8 titnciVfij Audam succeeded in prevailing on hi* mittrefls to'aee hmu
9 Xb^y Idid ^veral meetings, but Doorkhaunee still preserved her
10 purity, and^jccgected alike the.impODrtunitiea of her lover and her
11 h^sbaod.
12 . Audam's visits did not long escape the husband, who was til lid
13 with jealousy and desire of vengeance. He took the opportuimy of
14 his rival's next visit to way-lay him, at the head of several of his own
15 relations: and thoui?h liis attack was bravely repelled, and his o^^po-
16 nent escaped with a desperate wound, he resolved to try it Autlani's .
17 suit was favoured, by.observiug Uie effect of a report of Ills' death on
18 I^porkliaunee. '
19 Duurkhaunee'is only pleasure, during the long inten als of her
20 lover's visits, was to retire to a garden, ami 10 cultivate t\so liowers,
21 one, of wllid^ she named atier herself, and Llie other aller the object ,
22 of her affection. On the day of the ambuscade, she was watching
23 bar. flowers, M^hen abe obaerved that of Audam hmguidi 'lfipoai-d|jnii-
24 pHlby .witb-hia leoent nuaittttanfi; and befive afae feooveaeft fioni'iier
25 fiii|ma«» jdie 1^ aocoated by her hiiaband^ who approadied her with
26 adrarwn aiifolyiU.and bqaated (hat it waa wet with the' bk>od of Andmu
27 Diia tnal wjaa'fatal to Doorkhaiineej whd sunk to the ground* oviv-
28 whdkned with ginef and horrolir» and expired on tbe's^ioti Tbe inemB
29 waa-brooght' tp Aiuhuik, who woimdad near' the iacene o^ the wm^
30 bmeade, avd no. >ooner Jiad he heard % than he^allisd on hia nds-
31 tieaa'a name, a,nd breathed his Jaat They were buried att a diatance
32 firom eacli other; but th^h>ve prevailed even in dftatli, andthnr
33 bodies were Ibund to have met in one grave. Two trees spfun|( from
34 their remains, and mingled their branches over the tomb.
35 M(Xit people will be struck with the resembhuice of this story, and
36 {Nuticidarly of the ooDduaion» to many Ei^rapeaa- tales. It ia, indeed*
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