There gladiators fight or die in flow'rs;
Unwater'd see the drooping sea-horse mourn,
And swallows roost in Nilus' dusty urn."
What pleased me most at Versailles was the great number of large orange and lemon trees.
The forest of Versailles is of great extent, and abounds in wood, but there is little of what would be considered in England as good timber.
Windsor and Versailles have been often compared, although no two places can possibly differ more completely than they do. To have again recourse to the words of the poet, Windsor is a place,
"Where order in variety we see;
And where, tho' all things differ, all agree."
And, in my judgment, it is as far superior to Versailles as its forests of oak are to the elms which surround that boasted palace.