made by these original natives of 1'. the yoke of their bigoted conquer own Fire in the Burning Field at Bakou suppressed in one place, they had but br with fresh flame in another; and, as Cashmere, of that fair and Holy Val had in the same manner become strangers, and seen her ancient shrin princes swept away before the ma tolerant invaders, he felt a sympas with the ufferings of the pr which e

'd-there's not a breeze in motion;

# are is silent as the ocean.

Ts come, so light they come,

leaf is stirr'd nor wave is driven;
ind-tower on the EMIR's dome *

hardly win a breath from heaven.

he, that tyrant Arab, sleeps

., while a nation round him weeps;
le curses load the air he breathes,
'falchions from unnumber'd sheaths
starting to avenge the shame

race hath brought on IRAN'S† name.
rd, heartless Chief, unmoved alike

Tid eyes that weep and swords that strike;-ine of that saintly, murderous brood,

To carnage and the Koran given, Who think through unbelievers' blood Lies their directest path to Heaven.

* "At Gombaroon, and other places in Persia, they have wers for the purpose of catching the wind, and cooling the ses."-LE Bruyn.

the true general name for the empire of Persia." Disc. 5.

THE FIRE-WORSHIPPERS.

'Tis moonlight over OMAN's Sea; *
Her banks of pearl and palmy isles
Bask in the night-beam beauteously,
And her blue waters sleep in smiles.
'Tis moonlight in HARMOZIA'S† walls,
And through her EMIR'S porphyry halls,

Where, some hours since, was heard the swell
Of trumpet and the clash of zel, §

Bidding the bright-eyed sun farewell;-
The peaceful sun, whom better suits
The music of the bulbul's nest,
Or the light touch of lovers' lutes,
To sing him to his golden rest!

The Persian Gulf, sometimes so called, which separates the shores of Persia and Arabia.

The present Gombaroon, a town on the Persian side of the Gulf.

SA Moorish instrument of music.

All hush'd-there's not a breeze in motion;

The shore is silent as the ocean.

If zephyrs come, so light they come,

Nor leaf is stirr'd nor wave is driven; The wind-tower on the EMIR's dome * . Can hardly win a breath from heaven.

Even he, that tyrant Arab, sleeps
Calm, while a nation round him weeps;
While curses load the air he breathes,
And falchions from unnumber'd sheaths
Are starting to avenge the shame

His race hath brought on IRAN'st name.
Hard, heartless Chief, unmoved alike

'Mid eyes that weep and swords that strike;

One of that saintly, murderous brood,
To carnage and the Koran given,
Who think through unbelievers' blood
Lies their directest path to Heaven.

* "At Gombaroon, and other places in Persia, they have towers for the purpose of catching the wind, and cooling the houses."-LE BRUYN.

+ "Iran is the true general name for the empire of Persia." -Asiat. Res. Disc. 5.

One, who will pause and kneel unshod
In the warm blood his hand hath pour'd,
To mutter o'er some text of God

Engraven on his reeking sword;-*
Nay, who can coolly note the line,
The letter of those words divine,
To which his blade, with searching art,
Had sunk into its victim's heart!

Just ALLA! what must be thy look,

When such a wretch before thee stands

Unblushing, with thy Sacred Book,—

Turning the leaves with blood-stain❜d hands, And wresting from its page sublime

His creed of lust and hate and crime?
Even as those bees of TREBIZOND,-

Which from the sunniest flowers that glad
With their pure smile the gardens round,
Draw venom forth that drives men mad! †

"On the blades of their scimitars some verse from the Koran is usually inscribed."-RUSSEL.

"There is a kind of Rhododendros about Trebizond, whose flowers the bee feeds upon, and the honey thence drives people mad."-Tournefort.