The one whose smile shone out alone, The seaman singles from the sky, Thou wert not there SO SELIM thought, And every thing seem'd drear without thee; But, ah! thou wert, thou wert, Thy charm of song all fresh about thee. Of lutanists from many a land, She rov'd, with beating heart, around, And waited, trembling, for the minute, The board was spread with fruits and wine; On CASBIN'S hills; pomegranates full Of melting sweetness, and the pears, t * "The Arabian women wear black masks with little clasps prettily ordered." -CARRERI. Niebuhr mentions their showing but one eye in conversation. "The golden grapes of Casbin."- Description of Persia. ‡ "The fruits exported from Caubul are apples, pears, pomegranates, &c."— ELPHINSTONE. And sunniest apples that CAUBUL In all its thousand gardens* bears; — Seed of the Sunt, from IRAN's land; - All these in richest vases smile, "We sat down under a tree, listened to the birds, and talked with the son of our Mehmaundar about our country and Caubul, of which he gave an enchanting account: that city and its 100,000 gardens," &c.- ELPHINSTONE "The mangusteen, the most delicate fruit in the world; the pride of the Malay islands."- MARSDEN. "A delicious kind of apricot, called by the Persians tokm-ek-shems, signifying sun's seed."—Description of Persia. "Sweetmeats, in a crystal cup, consisting of rose-leaves in conserve, with lemon of Visna cherry, orange flowers," &c. - RUSSEL. || "Antelopes cropping the fresh berries of Erac."- The Moallakat, Poem of Tarafa. + Mauri-ga-Sima, an island near Formosa, supposed to have been sunk in the sea, for the crimes of its inhabitants. The vessels which the fishermen and divers bring up from it are sold at an immense price in China and Japan. See Kampfer. From vineyards of the Green-Sea gushing; † And SHIRAZ Wine, that richly ran And amply SELIM quaffs of each, That soon shall leave no spot undrown'd, He little knew how well the boy Can float upon a goblet's streams, As bards have seen him in their dreams, Catching new lustre from the tide That with his image shone beneath. Persian Tales. 'The white wine of Kishma. "The King of Zeilan is said to have the very finest ruby that was ever seen. Kublai-Khan sent and offered the value of a city for it, but the King answered he would not give it for the treasure of the world."- MARCO POLO. The Indians feign that Cupid was first seen floating down the Ganges on the Nymphæa Nelumbo. See Pennant. But what are cups, without the aid With all the bloom, the freshen'd glow Full, floating, dark - oh, he, who knows Her snowy Of a syrindat, and thus sings: * Come hither, come hither by night and by day, We linger in pleasures that never are gone; And the love that is o'er, in expiring, gives birth It is this, it is this. * Teflis is celebrated for its natural warm baths. See Ebn Haukal. "The Indian Syrinda or guitar."-SYMEZ. "Around the exterior of the Dewan Khafs (a building of Shah Allum's) in the cornice are the following lines, in letters of gold upon a ground of white marble-If there be a paradise upon earth, it is this, it is this.' "— FRANKLIN. |