tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post911942163931521605..comments2024-03-29T03:56:08.315-04:00Comments on johnshaplin: Journey Through Iran and Afghanistan by Nicholas Jubberjohnshaplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-57198432265381384772010-11-14T07:30:40.443-05:002010-11-14T07:30:40.443-05:00Much have I labored, much read o'er
Of Arabic ...Much have I labored, much read o'er<br />Of Arabic and Persian lore,<br />Collecting tales unknown and known;<br />Now two and sixty years are flown.<br />Regret, and deeper woe of sin,<br />'Tis all that youth has ended in,<br />And I with mournful thoughts rehearse<br />Bu Táhir Khusrawáni's verse:<br />"I mind me of my youth and sigh,<br />Alas for youth, for youth gone by!"<br /><br />Alas for Youth<br /> by: Ferdowsi (935-1020)<br /> translated by R. A. Nicholsonjohnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-35676451956201053432010-11-14T07:29:31.112-05:002010-11-14T07:29:31.112-05:00The world's a scale where men are weighed -
Th...The world's a scale where men are weighed -<br />The worse they are the more they boast;<br />But that's the way that scales are made -<br />The emptier pan's the uppermost.<br /><br />Ferdowsijohnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-8858152125987388242010-11-13T16:19:27.907-05:002010-11-13T16:19:27.907-05:00How long then will you seek for beauty here?
Seek ...How long then will you seek for beauty here?<br />Seek the unseen, and beauty will appear.<br />When the last veil is lifted neither men<br />Nor all their glory will be seen again,<br />The universe will fade -- this mighty show<br />In all its majesty and pomp will go,<br />And those who loved appearances will prove<br />Each other's enemies and forfeit love,<br />While those who loved the absent, unseen Friend<br />Will enter that pure love which knows no end.<br /><br />Farid ud-Din Attarjohnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.com