Those lanterns, countless as the winged lights The mighty tents of the beleaguerer spread, Nay, smiles to think that, though entoiled, beset, "People hell's chambers with yon host to-night! "Alike this loathsome world of his shall ring a Carreri mentions the fire-flies in India during the rainy season. See his Travels. b Sennacherib, called by the Orientals King of Moussal.-D'Herbelot. Thus to himself-but to the scanty train Still left around him, a far different strain :— "Glorious Defenders of the sacred Crown "I bear from Heaven, whose light nor blood shall drown "Nor shadow of earth eclipse ;-before whose gems "The paly pomp of this world's diadems, "The crown of GERASHID, the pillared throne a "Of PARVIZ, and the heron crest that shone," "Magnificent, o'er ALI's beauteous eyes, a Chosroes. For the description of his Throne or Palace, see Gibbon and D'Herbelot. There was said to be under this Throne or Palace of Khosrou Parviz a hundred vaults filled with "treasures so immense that some Mahometan writers tell us, their Prophet, to encourage his disciples, carried them to a rock, which at his command opened, and gave them a prospect through it of the treasures of Khosrou."-Universal History. b«The crown of Gerashid is cloudy and tarnished before the heron tuft of thy turban."-From one of the elegies or songs in praise of Ali, written in characters of gold round the gallery of Abbas's tomb.-See Chardin. c The beauty of Ali's eyes was so remarkable, that whenever the Persians would describe any thing as very lovely, they say it is Ayn Hali, or the Eyes of Ali.-Chardin. L "Now turn and see!". They turned, and as he spoke, A sudden splendour all around them broke, As autumn suns shed round them when they set. The glorious Light which, in his freedom's day, C Shone out to bless the breaking of his chain. a We are not told more of this trick of the Impostor, than that it was "une machine, qu'il disoit être la Lune." According to Richardson, the miracle is perpetuated in Nekscheb.-"Nakshab, the name of a city in Transoxiana, where they say there is a well, in which the appearance of the moon is to be seen night and day." b❝Il amusa pendant deux mois le peuple de la ville de Nekhscheb, en faisant sortir toutes les nuits du fond d'un puits un corps lumineux semblable à Lune, qui portoit sa lumière jusqu'à la distance de plusieurs milles."D'Herbelot. Hence he was called Sazendéhmah, or the Moon-maker. c The Shechinah, called Sakinat in the Koran.-See Sale's Note, chap. ii. "To victory!" is at once the cry of all— The watchmen of the camp,—who, in their rounds, Now sink beneath an unexpected arm, And in a death-groan give their last alarm. But Fate's no longer with him-blade for blade a The parts of the night are made known as well by instruments of music, as by the rounds of the watchmen with cries and small drums.-See Burder's Oriental Customs, vol. i. p. 119. b The Serrapurda, high screens of red cloth, stiffened with cane, used to enclose a considerable space round the royal tents.-Notes on the Eahardanush. The tents of Princes were generally illuminated. Norden tells us that the tent of the Bey of Girge was distinguished from the other tents by forty lanterns being suspended before it.-See Harmer's Observations on Job. And, as the clash is heard, new legions soon a Pour to the spot, like bees of KAUZEROON a Is seen glittering at times, like the white sail And hath not this brought the proud spirit low? To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. a «From the groves of orange-trees at Kauzeroon the bees cull a celebrated honey."-Morier's Travels. |