Gardens During Mughal Regime

The Mughals: from Akbar’s regime, allured by Valley’s scintillating beauty;
It’s crystalline springs, meadows, lakes and streams;
Luxuriant in flora, fauna and in forestry;
With laid out gardens in artistry with clipped trees and rockeries;
The water-fountains flowing down bubbling, murmuring in unusual luminosity;
Flowers in meads and at hills, in springs, summers to be;
In blues and whites irises, primroses, daisies, daffodils, poppies;
And in lilacs, flax, campanulas, gentians, blushing giant roses;
And water-lilies and lotuses and others myriads in hues,
With delicious fruits and odours sweet;
In almonds, cherries, peaches, pears, plums, apricots, apples too;
With majestic and shaded chinars, on lawns velvety’
And forests at river banks and at alpines.,
In abundances in cypress, pine, birch, deodar and willow trees;
Such was ‘the nature’s bounty.