The Alhambra . Behold, exclaimed the owl, the ancient and renowned cityof Toledo; a city famous for its antiquities. Behold those vener-able domes and towers, hoary with time and clothed with legend-ary grandeur in which so many of my ancestors have meditated, LEGEND OF PRINCE AHMED AL KAMEL 245 Pish ! cried the parrot, interrupting his solemn antiquarianrapture, what have we to do with antiquities, and legends,and your ancestry ? Behold what is more to the purpose—behold the abode of youth and beauty—behold at length, Oprince, the abode of your long-sought princess. The prince looked in the d
The Alhambra . Behold, exclaimed the owl, the ancient and renowned cityof Toledo; a city famous for its antiquities. Behold those vener-able domes and towers, hoary with time and clothed with legend-ary grandeur in which so many of my ancestors have meditated, LEGEND OF PRINCE AHMED AL KAMEL 245 Pish ! cried the parrot, interrupting his solemn antiquarianrapture, what have we to do with antiquities, and legends,and your ancestry ? Behold what is more to the purpose—behold the abode of youth and beauty—behold at length, Oprince, the abode of your long-sought princess. The prince looked in the direction indicated by the parrot,and beheld, in a delightful green meadow on the banks of theTagus, a stately palace rising from amidst the bowers of adelicious garden. It was just such a place as had been >
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