[lit-ideas] Re: someone help
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 11:41:47 -0700
Ursula Stange wrote:
Maybe this is definitive...
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The thirteenth-century Persian poet Muslih-uddin Sadi counseled us thus:
/If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft
And from thy slender store
Two loaves alone to thee are left
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul./
Yes.
http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quautsaadimoslihex001.htm
MOSLIH EDDIN (MUSLIH-UN-DIN) SAADI (SADI)
Persian poet, 1184-1291.
I can't find the name of the translator.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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