The Bhilsa Topes: Or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India

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Smith, Elder and Company, 1854 - Buddhism - 370 pages

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Page 187 - There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone. Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown: What was this tower of strength? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ?— A woman's grave.* c.

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