Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Yet haply there may lie conceal'd Cheer'd by this hope she bends her thither;- That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, And, near the boy, who tir'd with play * "You behold there a considerable number of a remarkable species of beautiful insects, the elegance of whose appearance and their attire procured for them the name of Damsels."-SONNINI. She saw a wearied man dismount From his hot steed, and on the brink Impatient fling him down to drink. Like thunder-clouds, of gloom and fire; The ruin'd maid — the shrine profan❜d -- Oaths broken - and the threshold stain'd Yet tranquil now that man of crime Met that unclouded, joyous gaze, Encounter morning's glorious rays. * Imaret, "hospice où on loge et nourrit, gratis, les pélerins pendant trois jours."TODFRINI, translated by the Abbé de Cournand. See also Castellan's Maurs des Othomans, tom. v. p. 145 As slow the orb of daylight sets, From SYRIA's thousand minarets! Of flowers, where he had laid his head, And down upon the fragrant sod Kneels*, with his forehead to the south, From Purity's own cherub mouth, Oh! 't was a sight — that Heav'n that child A scene, which might have well beguil'd Ev'n haughty EBLIS of a sigh For glories lost and peace gone by! *"Such Turks as at the common hours of prayer are on the road, or so employed as not to find convenience to attend the mosques, are still obliged to execute that duty; nor are they ever known to fail, whatever business they are then about, but pray immediately when the hour alarms them, whatever they are about, in that very place they chance to stand on; insomuch that when a janissary, whom you have to guard you up and down the city, hears the notice which is given him from the steeples, he will turn about, stand still, and beckon with his hand, to tell his charge he must have patience for awhile; when, taking out his handkerchief, he spreads it on the ground, sits cross-legged thereupon, and says his prayers, though in the open market, which, having ended, he leaps briskly up, salutes the person whom he undertook to convey, and renews his journey with the mild expression of Ghell gohnnum ghell, or, Come, dear, follow me." - AARON HILL'S Travels. And how felt he the wretched Man Reclining there while memory ran Nor found one sunny resting place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace! And hope, and feeling, which had slept Blest tears of soul-felt penitence! Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know. "There's a drop," said the PERI, "that down from the moon "Falls through the withering airs of June "The precious tears of repentance fall? *The Nucta, or Miraculous Drop, which falls in Egypt precisely on St. John's day, in June, and is supposed to have the effect of stopping the plague. "Though foul thy fiery plagues within, "One heavenly drop hath dispell'd them all!" And now – behold him kneeling there And hymns of joy proclaim through Heaven "Twas when the golden orb had set, "Joy, joy for ever! my task is done "To thee, sweet Edin! how dark and sad "And the fragrant bowers of AMBERABAD! The Country of Delight- the name of a province in the kingdom of Jinnistan, or Fairy Land, the capital of which is called the City of Jewels. Amberabad is another of the cities of Jinnistan. |