text:  The scene of the poem is one of the most romantic spots in that divine land; and the ruined palace and "gardens of delight" which once made the joy and pride of the mighty khans--the rulers of the Golden Horde--is perhaps not inferior as a source of wild legend and picturesque fairy lore--certainly not inferior in the eyes of a Russian reader--to the painted halls and fretted colonnades of the Alhambra