. William H. Seward's travels around the world. mmm. great distinction which she attained. Poets in the East, in theirimaginative dreamings, have tried to supply this shortcoming of his-tory. They describe her as beautiful, graceful, gentle, loving, and THE TAJ-MAHAL. 399 faithful, but hundreds, thousands, and millions, who have been aslovable as she is thus described, have passed away without monu-ment, though they may have been neither unwept, unhonored, norunsung. Let the natural suggestion of our own hearts furnishthe solution. Whatever else Banoo Begum may have been, ormay have done, she
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. mmm. great distinction which she attained. Poets in the East, in theirimaginative dreamings, have tried to supply this shortcoming of his-tory. They describe her as beautiful, graceful, gentle, loving, and THE TAJ-MAHAL. 399 faithful, but hundreds, thousands, and millions, who have been aslovable as she is thus described, have passed away without monu-ment, though they may have been neither unwept, unhonored, norunsung. Let the natural suggestion of our own hearts furnishthe solution. Whatever else Banoo Begum may have been, ormay have done, she was beautiful, she loved Shah Jehan devotedly,and he loved her more than all the world beside. Tradition saysthat she called her husband to her side in her last hours, and re-quired him to promise her two things: First, that he would notmarry again; and, second, that he would build her a beautiful reject the tradition, for we are unwilling to believe that awoman who could inspire such love as his could have doubted hisfidelity, or have been
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