text: ) These are the details of the piece: here is the general impression:-- "One evening by the light of a splendid moon which was reflected from the sea of Marmora and the violet summits of Mount Olympus I sat alone under the cypresses of the 'Ladders of the Dead;' those cypresses which overshadow innumerable tombs of Mussulmans and descend from the heights of Pera to the shores of the sea