[The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers CHAPTER XIII 5/32
She saw him on his black charger.
The foaming animal shied at Bartja who was lying in the road, threw his rider and dragged him into the Nile, whose waves became blood-red.
In her terror she screamed for help; her cries were echoed back from the Pyramids in such loud and fearful tones that she awoke. But hark! what could that be? That wailing, shrill cry which she had heard in her dream,--she could hear it still. Hastily drawing aside the shutters from one of the openings which served as windows, she looked out.
A large and beautiful garden, laid out with fountains and shady avenues, lay before her, glittering with the early dew. [The Persian gardens were celebrated throughout the old world, and seem to have been laid out much less stiffly than the Egyptian. Even the kings of Persia did not consider horticulture beneath their notice, and the highest among the Achaemenidae took an especial pleasure in laying out parks, called in Persian Paradises.
Their admiration for well-grown trees went so far, that Xerxes, finding on his way to Greece a singularly beautiful tree, hung ornaments of gold upon its branches.
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