"....But what did I know of the Empress except this tomb?/So I pictured her this way:..."*
*from Going to See the Taj Mahal, by Reetika Vazirani, World Hotel, [poem link from Ploughshares]
[The Taj Mahal at Agra, India in the early morning light From London to Australia by Aeroplane by Sir Ross Smith, ''The National Geographic Magazine'', March 1921]