...the day, In vain ye hope the dear delights to know, Which plains more hlest, or verdant vales hestow: Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found, And...luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I hent my way ! * Curst he the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade!...

...day, In vain ye hope the dear delights to know, Which plains more hlest, or verdaut vales hestow : Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found, And...around. Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, When 6r&: from ScLiraz' walls I hent my way ! ' Curst he the gold and silver which persuade Weak men to...

...to know. Which plains more bless'd or verdant vales bestow ; Here rocks alone and tameless sands arc found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Sad was thu hour, and luckless was the day, When first from Schiraz' walls I bent my way ! Curved be the gold...

...Collins in his Oriental Eclogues — Here, where no springs in murmurs break away, Or moss-crowned fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the dear...found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. Eel. ii. Hassan's address to his camels travelling through the burning deserts of the East. 14. Apply...

...the green delights to know Which plains more blessed. or verdant vales, bestow ; Here rocks alone, or tasteless sands, are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around. The history of the camel can be traced to the earliest ages, and this animal seems to have been, in...

...springs in murmurs break away, Or moss-crown'd fountains mitigate the day, In vain ye hope the green delights to know, Which plains more blest, or verdant...And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." Vet in these beautiful lines there is a slight error, which writers of the greatest genius very frequently...

...fondness for travel, and to repeat with Hassan, the camel-driver, in Collins' Oriental Eclogues, " Sad was the hour and luckless was the day, When first from Shiraz1 walls I bent my way." He was extremely fond of roving over hill and dell, losing himself meanwhile...

...and were dumb. The frown of God was stamped on this region ! For — " Here rocks alone and trackless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." 18th. — Continued our course over the plateau. It was now become hard sun-baked earth, and bare of...

...desolation of the vast wilderness of the Sunderbunds — that -huge labyrinth of jungle and rivers: — " Here rocks alone and tasteless sands are found, And faint and sickly winds for ever howl around." It is sad to reflect that this desolation has been the work of man — of outlawed runaways, chiefly...

...to recollect that I had expostulated with when he andaciously sneered at the words of the poet — " Sad was the hour and luckless was the day, When first from Shiraz walls I bent my way." The real state of the case was this : we might utterly fail in ialling...