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Gift of Speech
(From The Gulistan)
Now, while thou hast the
wondrous power of word,
Let every thought in shining
grace appear;
Tomorrow, when Death’s
messenger is here,
He will constrain thee to
depart unheard.
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Sa’di
(Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī )
1210- 1291or 92)
Persian Poet
https://archive.org/details/anthologyofworld0000vand/page/144/mode/1up
Tr: L. Cranmer Byng)
About Sa’di:
Sa’di’s favorite mode is a
simplicity and tenderness of heart, a delicacy of feeling and judgement, and
that exquisitely natural vein in which he relates his many apologues and
parables with a sort of sententious and epigrammatic turn…
James Ross
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