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SHIRAZ. 
Samarcand and Bakhorah; which, in an amatory stanza, he had 
said he would give for the mole on his mistress’s cheek. — “ Can 
the gifts of Hafiz ever impoverish Timour!” was the reply; 
which changed the monarch’s indignation into favour, and pro¬ 
duced reward instead of punishment. 
About three hundred years after this event, Kerim Khan raised 
tombs over the remains of this poet, who was considered the 
Anacreon of Persia, and those of Sadi, its Socrates in verse. They 
were planted with trees, and a college of holy men lodged in the 
boundary to protect the honoured shrines. But a solitary cypress 
or two, are now all that mark the inclosure of the poet; and 
scarce a tree of any height shows itself in the immediate vicinity 
of the town. At some little distance, the Bagh-i-Jeliun, or garden 
of Kerim Khan, and the more modern plantations of Tackt-i- 
Kujar, vary the shadeless monotony of the plain. The city itself 
differs little from most other capitals of provinces in the empire. 
The old walls, which conquest threw down, were ten feet in 
thickness, of a corresponding height, and protected by a ditch of 
thirty feet in depth : but the new ones, with which Aga Mahomed 
Khan replaced them, boast neither the breadth nor elevation of 
•those which are no more. These are of brick, with towers, and 
five or six gates opening into the plain. 
The present governor, Hassan Ali Mirza, is a son of the king, 
and a very young man. His jurisdiction extends northward to 
Yezdikhast, and southward, along the shores of the gulf to 
Bushire ; but its influence is not very powerful in either of these 
places, nor even at Shiraz itself. His youth inclines him more to 
the pleasures of his anderoon than to the toils of state ; and when 
’the prince sleeps in the arms of luxury, it can be no.subject of 
wonder, that- his ministers should only wake to similar enjoyment. 
