Show WHERE PERSIA persiana lake REST tea garden beside dusty road that may easily be a thousand or more years old the road mid and t the he river part company nt at the tip of the tea garden A sort of widening green inland bland Is there between a crook of the stream find and a wall ol of bo boulders Iders that would not be persian it if it acre ere perfectly straight yet the tall poplars of the garden would not cot be persian if they were not pointed in perfectly straight lines transversely or obliquely however the trees keep to one another no such relation us they might in the west they stana very close together maki making 1 lueles between aisle and aisle alslev TI this tl Is the quieter and roomier part of the ie ten tea garden where men come to enjoy the leisure of the east A boy brings them a rug a samovar a jug of water and some tiny ten tea glasses and there underneath the bough they sit hour after hour they generally escape my prying eye I 1 notice by eschewing the neighborhood of the wall I 1 do not blame them for the road on the outer side of that low wall Is fabulously dusty who knows how many thousand years people have passed that way between the city and a certain happy valley in tile the mountain darius xerxes the great kings the horsemen and peasants of today st rollers from afar like alexander of macedon or me jingling mules dejected donkeys flocks and herds that late in the afternoon or early in the morning move to and from the town as it were in a pillar of cloud 11 G dwight in the century |