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Updated: May 26, 2025
Across the glittering water lay on one side the Shalimar Garden known to all readers of "Lalla Ruhk" a paradise of roses; and beyond it again the lovelier gardens of Nour-Mahal, the Light of the Palace, that imperial woman who ruled India under the weak Emperor's name she whose name he set thus upon his coins: "By order of King Jehangir.
The English troops advanced in their concentrated formation in single line; their left wing occupied the Shah Dara plantations and the pontoon bridge across the river Ravi that flows close to Lahore. It extended thence five English miles further eastwards to a canal which flows past the Shalimar Park towards the south. This park and a place called Bhogiwal, lying next to it, formed the right wing.
This I saw with my own eyes, because the office where my Colonel Sahib went daily to talk with Colonel Forsyth Sahib was at the east end of the very gardens where the Palace stood. They are larger gardens than Shalimar here' he pointed with his chin up the lines 'or Shahdera across the river.
His Highness reappeared from nowhere in particular as his guests strolled across the terrace, and, after a little polite conversation, we took our leave and set forth for Srinagar. It was a glorious afternoon, and we deeply regretted that time would not permit us to visit the neighbouring Shalimar Bagh, which lay hidden among the trees near by.
He picked up the pieces of music that lay on the top of the piano. "Do you sing that song out of the Persian Garden Beside the Shalimar? I forget the words of it?" Her fingers ran through the pile of music. "'Pale Hands I Loved. Is that it?" She lifted her face and looked up at him. "Yes yes sing that!" "I'm afraid I haven't got the music can't play without the music." He drew a deep breath.
"Th' Imperial Selim held a feast In his magnificent Shalimar: In whose saloons ... The valleys' loveliest all assembled."
I rolled merrily with my young companions, all wearing overcoats, on the sparkling white slopes. On our downward trip we saw afar a vast carpet of yellow flowers, wholly transfiguring the bleak hills. Our next excursions were to the famous royal "pleasure gardens" of the Emperor Jehangir, at Shalimar and Nishat Bagh. The ancient palace at Nishat Bagh is built directly over a natural waterfall.
Just then, in the sunset, she was sitting on deck, singing under her breath and looking absently away to the Gardens across the Lake. I could catch the words here and there, and knew them. "Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, Where are you now who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far, Before you agonize them in farewell?" "Don't!" I said abruptly. It stung me.
They were now encamped in the Shalimar Park, an extensive enclosure surrounded by a wall and full of the most beautiful mango trees, and among them many small fountains and pretty pavilions. As Heideck wore a khaki suit and a cork helmet, he looked, in spite of his having no distinctive military dress, quite like an English officer, the resemblance being increased by his martial bearing.
So he bade his servants convey her with the greatest care to his summer palace in the Shalimar gardens, where the fountains scatter dewdrops over the beds of flowers, and laden fruit-trees bend over the marble colonnades. And there, amid the flowers and sunshine, she lived with the King, who speedily became so enamoured of her that he forgot everything else in the world.
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