From many delightful points of view the gleaming towers of this place, seen through the palms and reflected in the flooded lagoons at the margin of the river, do indeed give us something of the colour and romance that we had expected to see and yet so rarely find in the sun-baked lands of Mesopotamia.
VIII
PARADISE LOST
"Blossoms and fruit at once of golden hue
Appeared, with gay enamelled colours mixed."
—Paradise Lost, IV.