The Prophet's tomb of all its pious spoil.
[Stanza lxxvii.] line 6.
Mecca and Medina were taken some time ago by the Wahabees, a sect yearly increasing. [Vide supra, [p. 151].]
37.
Thy vales of evergreen, thy hills of snow.
[Stanza lxxxv.] line 3.
On many of the mountains, particularly Liakura, the snow never is entirely melted, notwithstanding the intense heat of the summer; but I never saw it lie on the plains, even in winter.
[This feature of Greek scenery, in spring, may, now and again, be witnessed in our own country in autumn—a blue lake, bordered with summer greenery in the foreground, with a rear-guard of "hills of snow" glittering in the October sunshine.]
38.
Save where some solitary column mourns
Above its prostrate brethren of the cave.