e w e r ofgold, has turn-ed a plain ofyellow loam intoan oasis, is Sam-arkand, onceQueen of theEast. Sur-rounded by fieldsof cotton, andpartly hidden byorchards of ap-ricots, peaches,figs and pome-granates, yetoften toweringabove them, arcthe remains ofthat old cityabout whichclusters so muchof the… … \ 11 \M UIAN RCl. the bones of the saint AH Eliza, the eighth Imam,or .Moslem priest. Nor do they realize that theyare woven where Fudousi, the Homer of Persia,and also Omar Khayyam, the poet astronomer, Great conquered it. It survived the invasionsof innumerable wild hordes of the Steppe-,…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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