Water from the clouds descend Thou'llt ne er pluck fruit from off the willow-bough Not on the base thy precious moments spend Thou'llt ne'er taste sugar from the reed I trow."Ībasa wa tawalla 'an ja'ahu Tama, wa ma yudrika la'allahu yazzakka au yadhahakkaru fatanfa'hu' Idhdhikra, 'amma mani 'staghna fa'anta lahu tasadda wa ma 'alaika 'alia yazzakka wa amma man jaaka yas'a wa huwa yakhsha fa'anta 'anhu talaha kalla innaha tadhkiratun." KORAN, chap. Where is holy Khizr say ? dropping where do spring's soft breezesĪbar amad wa baz bar sar-i-sabza girist Be bada arghawan na mi bayad zist, In sabza ki imroz tamashagah'e mast Ta sabza'e khak-i-ma tamashagah'e kist." " DownĪs now these flowerets yield delight to me So shall my dust yield flowers, God knowsĪbar gar ab-i-zindagi barad Hargiz az shakh-i-bed bar na khori Bar faromaya rozgar mabar Kaz nai boriya shakar nakhori." " What though 'Ab-i-hayat tira-gun shud, Khizr farrukh pai kujaat? Khun chakid az shakh-i-gul bad-i-baharanra che shud ? " Wa janash pazir." Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz. Ubers Mittelmeer gedrungen Nur wer Hafiz liebt und kennt Weiss was Calderon gesungen. Tolbort in the Persian trans" lation of Robinson Crusoe." No better motto for the student of Oriental verse, whether in the original or in a translation, can be found " West-oestlicher than the words of Goethe in the In transliterating Persian he has for the most part adopted that of Mr. the system of Professor Palmer in his Arabic adopted Manual. To be Browne's Literary History of In transliterating Arabic the compiler has Persia. for allowing him to quote from Redhouse's translation of the Masnavi and Bicknell's translation of Hafiz, and : Whinfield, and the owners of the copyright of He also the late Col. Lyall, K.C.S.I., Professor Margoliouth of Oxford, Professors Browne and Nicholson of Cambridge, Mr. In presenting these specimens from the still hitherto largely unworked mines of the Orient, the compiler desires to thank warmly the following Oriental scholars who have allowed him to make use of their translations Sir C. Oriental Quotations, Dictionary of Abbreviations,Ī DICTIONARY OF ORIENTAL QUOTATIONS (($ra6tc and (pereian) Dictionary of Battles, Dictionary of Indian Biography,ĭictionary of Political Phrases and Allusions, Quotations, Contemporary (English) Quotations, SONNENSCHEIN'S REFERENCE SERIES (4th Edition),Ĭlassical Quotations (3rd Edition), T.
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