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Where yonder stately garden shews The crimson beauty of the rose, The glittering baubool drops its gold, And baylas perfumed buds unfold Their crests of snow, o'er the pink bed With the broad lotus thickly spread. Untouched by time, unscathed by war Lonely and bright as eve's first star, The splendid mausoleum greets The stranger's rapt and dazzled eye, And to his throbbing heart repeats A tale of love's idolatry. Of precious marbles richly blent Shines the imperial monument; A gorgeous fabric spreading wide Its glittering pomp of colonnades, Fit palace for the peerless bride Reposing in its hallowed shades. Too beautiful for mortal hands, Its clustering cupolas and towers