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Epigrams – Sayings

SAYINGS

In life’s small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: know’st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee,
‘I find thee worthy; do this deed for me’?

A camel-driver, angry with his drudge,
Beating him, called him hunchback; to the hind
Thus spake a dervish: ‘Friend, the Eternal Judge
Dooms not his work, but ours, the crooked mind.’

Swiftly the politic goes: is it dark?—he borrows a lantern;
Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his steps by the stars.

‘Where lies the capital, pilgrim, seat of who governs the Faithful?’
‘Thither my footsteps are bent: it is where Saadi is lodged.’

SUN-WORSHIP

If I were the rose at your window,
Happiest rose of its crew,
Every blossom I bore would bend inward,
They’d know where the sunshine grew.

WITH A PAIR OF GLOVES LOST IN A WAGER

We wagered, she for sunshine, I for rain,
And I should hint sharp practice if I dared;
For was not she beforehand sure to gain
Who made the sunshine we together shared?

SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY

As life runs on, the road grows strange
With faces new, and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
‘Neath every one a friend.

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