Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-02-24

with which not only men but angels might be re-
called. Remember that Anacreon and Sappho wire
born among these Egean Islands, and so were
Homer and Pythagoras. 1t must be all classic air
where the blind old bard of Chios breathed and
where Troy stood, and where Mytelene produced
the lovers OF wisdom Only imagine Homer stagger-
ing through the seven cities that claim his birth as
you reel among the gardens of Shirauz with a face
pulled up like blushing grape. And Byron wrote
about these islands, and made them still more cele-
brated. His bride of Abydos was laughed at, be-
cause the lady never got married. But i'll the Archi
pelago any female is called bride so soon as she
is betrothed, or they say in this city beSpoken.
She then becomes forbidden fruit The damsels
of the Greek islands are Us handsome as exquisite
antelopes. You would like their snowy turbans
and yellow slippers with knots of ruby fringe at
their heels. But though much employed in vine
yards not one of them would even look at Nezami.
You are too far gone. Some OF them who had
heard of your verses enquired very kindly wheth-
er you still INDUCED TO excess in wine. Like an
AbySSinian Judge, who kept an ugly image and
beautiful one for parties at litigation, we were
constrained to turn very ugly truth before the
superb eyes of these island girls. One of these
damsels in Lesbos thought she could reform you,
and so she could If singing were of any avail, for
she sung me Lesboum carmen in the most en-
chanting style. 1t was in praise Of young goath-
erd, who never satiates his tongue with any other
| liquid than the mountain brook The song took
me by surprise for we did not anticipate such a
treat in the proverbialy vinous island of Lesbos.
| We did not touch at the island of Rhodes to
and which was taken from the Turks by the
Knights of st. ohm in 1908, and recovered in
1922 of the Christian era. But we went very near
10 Santorin, nigh to which there is small island Of
| five miles in circumference and quite remarkable.
1t rose from the during an earthquake in 1907.
1t is now blooming in flowers and laden with fruits.
The sight of il made me ardently wish that some
civic and political convulsion could take place in
Persia, after the subsiding OF which her twenty
millions might taste the fruits of freedom. But
you, Nezami, have always leaned TO the establish
ed powers. You would like to be cupbearer to the
King at Teheran. How you would like to figure
at the pulace even though it were q ridiculous
| figure. To gurgle down wine is your Paridise.-
In Eden itself you would have Stunned all the
white flowers and pulled all the red. But Sadi,
like Korner, would love to be soldier even with
presenment of DEATH till his country took its prop
eI place among the nations of the earth. Greece
along which we coasted has thrown off the Turk
Sh yoke: but she ignobly took King in placeiof
a Sultan. The friends OF man every where hoped
| that she would have recalled her primitive forms
of Government from their Moslem sepulchre.-
| Then would philosophy have been taught once more
on the margin of the Ilyssus, and the MUSES. after
long and dreary absence would have returned Ia
the sleeps of Delphi on their melodious and trium-
plant wings. But our vessel put in at Tarento
among parcel of fishing boats. Tarento was once
a powerful Republic, with fleet that swept the
How reduced! There is real curiosity in Tarento
Bay At the bottom of it there are springs of cool
and delicious water which arrive Mt the surface,
and can be used whenever the agitated sea falls
down 10 its level. And should Persia ever be
thrown into storm, what fountains of enjoyment
will be opened in her rainless deserts! The rain
bow is phe nomenon seldom ever seen in Persia,
but then moral one will span the country from
the Caspian TO the Indian Sea, and its reflection
will lean on the mountains of Candahar and lose
itself i'll the waters of the Araxes. Sadi, like the
man in the Koran who was searching for his camel.
is willing TO wander long in the desert, if like that
man he can catch but one view of the garden oil
lrem. And it will not be garden of rouri, OF
black eyed girls: but of men who will know and
maintain their rights. Forgive my enthusiasm,
Nezami. AT the same time excuse my pencil from
all attempts to depict Italy, least in this series
Letters Should my absence be prolonged, we
have much TO say of the countries through which
we passed in reaching England. Sadi skipped along
like bird chipping rs he went, and overlooking
from hundred emnences what have been the
field of human action. But on some of the battle
grounds of Napoleon, he moaned like plantive
dove, or dying swan, because they were prompt
ed by am5t"n. We can comparatively forgive
him, Borodino, and the Pyramids, but not hi.
myrmidons bathing Tabor in blood. Had the trans.
| fgutaion garments been there they would have
been trampled en- by sangnary steeds. And ma,
tins letter reach you swiftly arrow feather
ed from Bagadad eagle and shot by Turkish
| Archer