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sweet Basil, the hyacinth, and others of a similar species, were arranged in order, on their several banks, and channels of running water, were dispersed among the roots of the trees according to the Verse.

Where’er the rivulet wanders slow

a thousand musky roses blow,

Where languid streamlets sleep btween

The verdure wakes in livelier green,

While every rose a thousand tints,

along its blushing leaves depaints

and as the glowing petals smile

Sweet fragrance makes for many a mile.

In this new Paradise of a garden, they halted, they pitched a tent under fortunate auspices, spread beautiful carpets, and displaced furniture, rich as that of Khosroo, they illuminated the Tent, with a Lustre, and there the Princess Semen Ruh took up her residence. The report of their arrival reached Azur Shah and as the Poet Huzret Mullah says.

The present precious moment seize,

When fortune falls in every breeze,

And ere the Power have time to roam

Bestir yourself invite her home.

The Emperor immediately ordered the Cymbal of joy, and the nagurate? of rejoicing, to be beat, the Corinet? the Pipes the Trumpets the Fifes