And mine is the gentle song that bears "Tis I that mingle in one sweet measure With the blissful tone that's still in the ear, To a note more heavenly still that is near. The warrior's heart, when touch'd by me, "The Pompadour pigeon is the species, which, by carrying the fruit of the cinnamon to different places, is a great disseminator of this valuable tree."BROWN'S Illustr. tab. 19. "Whenever our pleasure arises from a succession of sounds, it is a perception of a complicated nature, made up of a sensation of the present sound or note, and an idea or lemembrance of the foregoing, while their mixture and concurrence produce such a mysterious delight, as neither could have produced alone And it is often heightened by an anticipation of the succeeding notes. Thus Sense, Memory, and Imagination, are conjunctively employed."— GERRARD on Taste. This is exactly the Epicurean theory of Pleasure, as explained by Cicero :"Quocirca corpus gaudere tamdiu, dum præsentem sentiret voluptatem: animum et præsentem percipere pariter cum corpore et prospicere venientem, nec præteritam præterfluere sinere." Madame de Stael accounts upon the same principle for the gratification we derive from rhyme: --"Elle est l'image de l'espérance et du souvenir. Un son nous fait désirer celui qui doit lui répondre, et quand le second retentit il nous rappelle celui qui vient de nous échapper." As his own white plume, that high amid death From my fairy home, And if there's a magic in Music's strain, Of that moonlight wreath, Thy Lover shall sigh at thy feet again. 'Tis dawn at least that earlier dawn, Whose glimpses are again withdrawn,* As if the morn had wak'd, and then Shut close her lids of light again. And NOURMAHAL is up, and trying The wonders of her lute, whose strings "The Persians have two mornings, the Soobhi Kazim and the Soobhi Sadig, the false and the real day-break. They account for this phenomenon in a most whimsical manner. They say that as the sun rises from behind the Kohi-Qaf (Mount Caucasus), it passes a hole perforated through that mountain, and that darting its rays through it, it is the cause of the Soobhi Kasim, or this temporary appearance of day-break. As it ascends, the earth is again veiled in darkness, until the sun rises above the mountain, and brings with it the Soobhi Sadig, or real morning."- SCOTT WARING. He thinks Milton may allude to this, when he says, "Ere the babbling Eastern scout, The nice morn on the Indian steep From that ambrosial Spirit's wings. And then her voice - 'tis more than human Never, till now, had it been given To lips of any mortal woman To utter notes so fresh from heaven; When angel sighs are most divine. So fearful lest its heavenly sweetness For things so heavenly have such fleetness! Till rapt she dwells on every string, In love with her own wondrous song. That evening, (trusting that his soul In his magnificent Shalimar: *- *"In the centre of the plain, as it approaches the Lake, one of the Delhi Emperors, I believe Shah Jehan, constructed a spacious garden called the Shalimar, which is abundantly stored with fruit-trees and flowering shrubs. Some Of evening o'er the waters trembled, Singing in gardens of the South t * Those songs, that ne'er so sweetly sound of the rivulets which intersect the plain are led into a canal at the back of the garden, and flowing through its centre, or occasionally thrown into a variety of water-works, compose the chief beauty of the Shalimar. To decorate this spot the Mogul Princes of India have displayed an equal magnificence and taste; especially Jehan Gheer, who, with the enchanting Noor Mahl, made Kashmire his usual residence during the summer months. On arches thrown over the canal are erected, at equal distances, four or five suites of apartments, each consisting of a saloon, with four rooms at the angles, where the followers of the court attend, and the servants prepare sherbets, coffee, and the hookah. The frame of the doors of the principal saloon is composed of pieces of stone of a black colour, streaked with yellow lines, and of a closer grain and higher polish than porphyry. They were taken, it is said, from a Hindoo temple, by one of the Mogul princes, and are esteemed of great value."- FORSTER. "The waters of Cachemir are the more renowned from its being supposed that the Cachemirians are indebted for their beauty to them."-ALI YEZDI. "From him I received the following little Gazzel, or Love Song, the notes of which he committed to paper from the voice of one of those singing girls of Cashmere, who wander from that delightful valley over the various parts of India."- Persian Miscellanies. There, too, the Haram's inmates smile; Maids from the West, with sun-bright hair, And from the Garden of the NILE, Delicate as the roses there; * Daughters of Love from CYPRUs' rocks, In their own bright Kathaian bowers, That they might fancy the rich flowers, Every thing young, every thing fair, Thou loveliest, dearest of them all, "The roses of the Jinan Nile, or Garden of the Nile (attached to the Emperor of Marocco's palace), are unequalled, and mattresses are made of their leaves for the men of rank to recline upon."-JACKSON. "On the side of a mountain near Paphos there is a cavern which produces the most beautiful rock-crystal. On account of its brilliancy it has been called the Paphian diamond."- MARITI. + "There is a part of Candahar, called Peria, or Fairy Land."-Thevenot. In some of those countries to the north of India vegetable gold is supposed to be produced. "These are the butterflies which are called in the Chinese language Flying Leaves. Some of them have such shining colours, and are so variegated, that they may be called flying flowers; and indeed they are always produced in the finest flower-gardens."-DUNN. |