Llalla Rookh Author:Thomas Moore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LLALLA ROOKH. Is the eleventh year of the reign of Anruugzebe, Abdalla, king of the lesser Bucharia, a lineal descendant from the great Zingis, having abdicat... more »ed the throne in favour of his son, set out on a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Prophet; and, passing into tndia through the delightful valley ot Cashmere, rested for a short time at Delhi on In- way. He was entertained by Aurungzebe in a style of magnificent hospitality, worthy alike of the visitor and the host, and was afterwards escorted with the same splendour to Surat, where he embarked for Arabia. During the nay of the royal pilgrim at Delhi, a marriage was agreed upon "between the prince, his son, and the yonngest daughter of the emperor, Llalla Rookh ;—a princess described by poets of her time, as more beautiful than Lelia, Shrine, Dewilde, or any of those heroines whose names and loves embellish the songs of Persia and Hindostan. It was intended that the nupiials should be celebrated at Cashmere; where ilie young king, as soon as the cares of empire would permit, was to meet, for the first time, his lovely bride, and after a few months' repose in that enchanting valley, conduct her over the snowy hills into Bncharia. The day of Llalla Rookh's departure from Delhi was as splendid as sunshine and pageantry could make it. The bazaars and baths were all covered with the richest tapestry; hundreds of gilded barges upon the Jumna floated with their banner Tulip choek. B shining in the water; while through the streets groups of beautiful children went strewing the most delicious flowers around, as in that Persian festival exiled the Scattering of the Roses; till every part of the city was as fragrant as if a caravan of musk from Khoten had passed through it. The princess, having taken leave of her kind fathe...« less