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Lalla-Rookh
Lalla-Rookh or Lala Rukh (Persian: Ů„Ř§Ů„Ű Ř±Ř®) the title of a poem by Thomas Moore, from the name of the heroine, the daughter of the Mughal emperor, Aurangzeb; engaged to the young king of Bactria, she goes forth to meet him, but her heart having been smitten by a poet she meets on the way, as she enters the palace of her bridegroom she swoons away, but reviving at the sound of a familiar voice she wakes up with rapture to find that the poet of her affection was none other than the prince to whom she was engaged.
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