And GEORGIA's bloom, and AZAB's darker smiles, But why this pageant now? this arm'd array? Not such the pageant now, though not less proud; "The name of tulip is said to be of Turkish extraction, and given to the flower on account of its resembling a turban."-BECKMAN'S History of Inventions. "The inhabitants of Bucharia wear a round cloth bonnet, shaped much after the polish fashion, having a large fur border. They tie their kaftans about the middle with a girdle of a kind of silk crape, several times round the body." Account of Independent Tartary, in Pinkerton's Collection. Is come to join, all bravery and belief, The creed and standard of the heav'n-sent Chief. Though few his years, the West already knows Nor feel those god-like breathings in the air, no, too well For his soul's quiet work'd the' awakening spell; And now, returning to his own dear land, Full of those dreams of good that, vainly grand, Haunt the young heart, - proud views of human-kind, Of men to Gods exalted and refin’d, False views, like that horizon's fair deceit, Where earth and heav'n but seem, alas, to meet ! Soon as he heard an Arm Divine was rais'd To right the nations, and beheld, emblaz'd On the white flag MOKANNA's host unfurl'd, At once his faith, his sword, his soul obey'd * In the war of the Caliph Mahadi against the Empress Irene, for an account of which see Gibbon, vol. x. That fought beneath that banner's sacred text In virtue's cause; -never was soul inspir'd With livelier trust in what it most desir'd, Than his, the' enthusiast there, who kneeling, pale Low as young AZIм knelt, that motley crowd 66 Stranger, though new the frame "Thy soul inhabits now, I've track'd its flame * This wonderful Throne was called The Star of the Genii. For a full des cription of it, see the Fragment, translated by Captain Franklin, from a Persian M S. entitled "The History of Jerusalem," Oriental Collections, vol. i. p. 235.When Soliman travelled, the eastern writers say, "He had a carpet of green silk on which his throne was placed, being of a prodigious length and breadth, and sufficient for all his forces to stand upon, the men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his left; and that when all were in order, the wind at his command, took up the carpet, and transported it, with all that were upon it, wherever he pleased; the army of birds at the same time flying over their heads, and forming a kind of canopy to shade them from the sun.''- SALE'S Koran, vol. ii. p. 214. note. "For many an age*, in every chance and change "Of that existence, through whose varied range, "As through a torch-race, where, from hand to hand "The flying youths transmit their shining brand, "From frame to frame the unextinguish'd soul "Nor think 'tis only the gross Spirits, warm'd "With duskier fire and for earth's medium form'd, "That run this course; Beings, the most divine, "Thus deign through dark mortality to shine. "Such was the Essence that in ADAM dwelt, "To which all Heav'n, except the Proud One knelt: † "Such the refin'd Intelligence that glow'd "In Moussa's frame, and, thence descending, flow'd "Through many a Prophet's breast §;-in ISSA || shone, "Aud in MOHAMMED burn'd; till, hastening on, * The transmigration of souls was one of his doctrines. - Vide D' Herbelot. "And when we said unto the angels, Worship Adam, they all worshipped him except Eblis (Lucifer), who refused."— The Koran, chap, ii. Moses. This is according to D'Herbelot's account of the doctrines of Mokanna :'Sa doctrine étoit, que Dieu avoit pris une forme et figure humaine, depuis qu'il eut commandé aux Anges d'adorer Adam, le premier des hommes. Qu'après la mort d'Adam, Dieu étoit apparu sous la figure de plusieurs Prophètes, et autres grands hommes qu'il avoit choisis, jusqu'à ce qu'il prit celle d'Abu Moslem, Prince de Khorassan, lequel professoit l'erreur de la Tenassukhiah ou Metempschychose; et qu'après la mort de ce Prince, la Divinité étoit passée, et descendue en sa personne." || Jesus. "(As a bright river that, from fall to fall "In many a maze descending, bright through all, Again throughout the' assembly at these words, "But these," pursued the Chief, "are truths sublime, "That claim a holier mood and calmer time "Than earth allows us now; this sword must first "The darkling prison-house of Mankind burst, "Ere Peace can visit them, or Truth let in "Her wakening daylight on a world of sin. |