Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — Agra. [ARTICLE]

Agra.

. Agra is a city of tombs. It is the shell of a vanished glory, the witheVed leaf of one of the most ornate and gorgeous flowers that ever bloomed in the Orient. It is the city of the tombs of kings, of the tombs of conquerors, of the tombs of beautiful women and the tombs of memories and hopes. It is interesting in a mild way today, but it is only by linking the ruins as they stand with the picture of what they once were that you get the full flavor of Agra. , Agra is known the world over as the city that holds she Taj Mahal, the most beautiful and perfect specimen of the strange architecture sf India. The Taj was built by .an oriental despot for the tomb of his favorite and best-loved queen; it is said to have been built after specifications gleaned by the monarch in a dream in which he visited heaven. The result was such as to make the idea not wholly ridiculous, for the Taj by moonlight seems like a bit of another world.