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WITH SA'DI IN THE GARDEN;
or,
THE BOOK OF LOVE.
Introduction.
At Agra we had seen the City-sights,
The Fort, the Mosques, the busy hot bazaars;
Akbar's red bulwarks,—shutting treasures in
With league-long ramp of sandstone,—Hathi Pul,
The Bathing-House of Mirrors, Ghuznee's Gates,
Diwan-i-Khas, Diwan-i-Am, the Court
Of Jasmine, Machi Bhawun, and that gem
Of holy places named the "House of Pearl"—
Motî-Musjid, where Archangels might pray
And miss no grace of Heaven, no purity!—
Under the zigzagged cream and rosy roof
Of Jâhânâra's Mosque our unshod feet
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