The Gulistan; Or, Flower-Garden of Shaikh Sadī of Shiraz:
The Gulistan; Or, Flower-Garden of Shaikh Sadī of Shiraz:
Saʻdī
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" Such is not my parching '^ thirstj that it is to be quenched with the limpid ^ element of water j were I to swallow it in oceans: ** Joy tor that happy aspect, whose eye " can, every morning, contemplate such a coun- << tenance as thine: a person intoxicated with '' wine lies giddy, and awake, half the night ; " but, if intoxicated with the cup-bearer [God], ^' the day of judgement must be his dawn, or ^* morning." APOLOGUE 17.
Iv the year, that Sultan Mohammed Khowa- razm-Shah had for some political reason chosen to make peace with the king of Kho&, I entered the metropolitan mosque at Kashghar, and met a youth incomparably lovely, and exquisitely handsome ; such as they have mentioned in re- Digitized by Google 341 semblance of him : — ^' thy master instructed ^^ thee in every bold and captivating grace ; he '^ taught thee coquetry and confidence, tyranny " and violence : I have seen no mortal with such *^ a form and temper, stateliness and manner ; <^ perhaps he learned these fascinating ways from " an angel/' He held the introduction of the Zamakhshari Arabic srammar in his hand, and was repeating : ^Caraba Zaidun Amranwa Zaid beat Amru, and is the assailant of Amru !
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