'Travels from India to England : comprehending a visit to the Burman Empire, and a journey through Persia, Asia Minor, European Turkey, &c., in the years 1825-26, by James Edward Alexander' [‎135] (196/412)

PERSIA.
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CHAPTER VL
Zergoon Bund Emir Ruins of Persepolis Sculptures Futteabad
Mayen Imaum Zada Ismael Oojan Aspas. Kiosk-ki-zurd Dey-
gurdoo Yezdikhurst Muksoodbeggee Pigeons Ghomesha Mayar
Ispahanek.
On the 27th June we marched from Shiraz for Zergoon, distant
sixteen miles : the road was a very bad one, and Zergoon an insig
nificant place. Fevers now began to appear in camp ; they were of
an intermittent character, and prevailed chiefly amongst the Indians.
The appearance of the camp was very respectable ; besides ten large
tents, there were a great number of small ones for servants and
followers. The Envoy had five hundred mules; and the whole
number of horses and mules was a thousand.
Next day we marched to Bund Emir, distant sixteen miles. I
cannot refrain from inserting the following beautiful lines on the
Bund Emir in Lalla Rookh :
There's a bower of roses by Bund Emir's stream,
And the nightingale sings round it all the day long;
In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream,
To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
That bower and its music I never forget,
But oft, when alone in the bloom of the year,
I think, is the nightingale singing there yet ?
Are the roses still bright by the calm Bund Emir ?
We neither saw rose-bowers, nor heard the soft warbling of the
bulbul.