86 CONCHOLOGIST’S COMPANION. 
The following allusion to this beautiful production 
of the Indian seas is certainly not inferior to the 
preceding : 
Farewell—farewell to thee, Araby’s daughter, 
(Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea); 
No pearl ever lay under Oman’s green water, 
More pure in its shell than thy spirit in thee. 
Oh, long upon Araby’s green sunny highlands 
Shall maids and their lovers remember the doom 
Of her, who lies sleeping among the Pearl Islands, 
With nought but the sea-star* to light up her tomb. 
Farewell—be it ours to embellish thy pillow 
With every thing beauteous that grows in the deep ; 
Each flow’r of the rock, and each gem of the billow, 
Shall sweeten thy bed, and illumine thy sleep. 
Around thee shall glitter the loveliest amber 
That ever the sorrowing sea-bird has wept, 
With many a pearl, in whose hollow-wreath’d chamber 
We, Peris of ocean, by moonlight have slept. 
Moore. 
* Star-fish: one of the greatest curiosities in the Persian Gulf. 
It is circular, and so beautifully luminous at night, as to resemble 
the full moon surrounded by rays. 
