text:  His affectionate remembrance of his Syrian home led him to introduce into his new kingdom the flowers and fruits of the east;--and the palm-tree which was the parent of all those of its kind in Spain and to which he addressed the well-known lines lamenting their common fate as exiles from their fatherland was planted by himself in the gardens of the Rissafah a country palace built on the model of one near Damascus in which the first years of his life had been spent