was originally composed to the words of a song in honour of the accession of King Theebaw, but words on all manner of subjects have been written to it since :

RANGOON MAIDENS.

O, the girls of Rangoon town,

They are fairies who've come down

From seats of nats, beyond the skies, sure here their likes are none.
And the fragrance on their cheek,

Gad, it makes a man feel weak,

And their hair so black and glossy with jet wavelets in the sun.
Ye maidens fair,

With the lightning of the hairpin in the midnight gloom of hair.

The Southern Queen,

The right-hand Queen,

She who sits supreme, alone

By the monarch on the throne,
She the greatest of the Four;
List, sweet maids whom I adore,
Dark-skinned or fair,

Slim, débonnaire,

She has robes, a kingdom's joy,
That two hundred looms employ ;
But the silken flowers you wear,
You may dare with her compare,
Rangoon maids.

With gay kerchief o'er the bosom,
With sweet swaying of the shoulder,
Without art

Ye inflict on one or two some

Wounds that love will hardly solder
In the heart.

O that curve in the round arm!
It has wrought men grievous harm.
Like the sylphs when they're at play,
Like the maids of Mandalay,

Without display

In every-day

Quiet dresses they

Are busked and gay

As the daughters of the palace, as the maidens of the skies
In their natural, their usual array.

O! could I but sing what I think,
My heart would no more on the brink
Of despairing love struggle and sink,
Ye maidens to heavens the link;
Each passer-by

Than thus: You're fair as any maid in Mandalay.

Baranee is a daughter of nats, corresponding very much to the classical Flora.

VOL II.

Madee, the spouse of Prince Waythandaya, is always regarded as the model wife.

Ameh! "mother!" is the invariable exclamation of all Burmans on all possible occasions of astonishment, anger, doubt, or delight.

The name Hanthawaddy, properly applied to the whole province, is, in songs, usually employed to designate Rangoon, for rhythmical more than any other reason, just as Mamyay, or Myay, or Man, stands for Mandalay.

"Rose-bud fairies," called bohn-gyoh, are daughters of nats, who having stayed in the country of the dewahs for a thousand years, are obliged to come down to the seat of man again. They are born from roses. Such charming houris apparently particularly affect Rangoon.

The following is the air as written down by Mr. St. Clair :

D

Repeat B

Repeat B

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Next to the "Sound of the Trumpet " the Doh-bat-than is probably the most popular air, and is certainly the next most familiar to the English ear. It may be called the refrain-song, and is remarkable for the long dwelling and trilling on the last note of each stanza. The doh is the seed with which aim is taken in the game of gohn-nyin-htoh, and pat, or bat, is to twist or spin. The metre here is not so complicated :—