# Popular Tales

Author: Guizot, Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline), 1773-1827; Burke, L., Mrs. [Translator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42839

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Popular+Tales+Guizot&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the month of Flowers, in Farsistan, the Land of Roses, three youths inhaled the perfumed air of the morning, as they sported in the flower-covered fields, and amid the leaves, sparkling with dew. Pleasure directed their steps towards the depths of a dark grove, into which the heat of the first beams of day had not yet penetrated. A celestial fragrance mingled with the first exhalations of the verdure. One single sunbeam had pierced the thick foliage, as if to point out, with its golden finger, a Rose, the loveliest of roses. The dew-drops bathed it as they passed, or crept, for its refreshment, into its bosom, coloured with transparent tints of light and shade; and the zephyr of the gr...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/popular-tales-42839/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/popular-tales-42839/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/popular-tales-42839/chapters/1/index.md)