FOUNTAIN IN THE COURT OF THE LIONS.
authoritative. The verses, which may, perhaps, consist of twelve or so, are couched in the usual double-shotted language of the Oriental. Two or three are subjoined:
“Blessed be He who gave the Imam Mohammed a mansion which in beauty excels all other mansions.
“Look at this solid mass of pearl glistening all around, which falls within a circle of silvery froth, and then flows amidst translucent jewels of surpassing loveliness; exceeding the marble in whiteness, and the alabaster in transparency.
“O thou who beholdest these lions couching, fear not; life is wanting to enable them to show their fury.”
The salutary warning here given irresistibly reminds one of “the shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort” with whom the mad spirit, Robin Goodfellow, made such frolic—the immortal
A LITTLE TEMPLE IN THE COURT OF THE LIONS.
