The Gulistan, or Rose Garden (Classic Reprint) Paperback - 2015

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Excerpt from The Gulistan, or Rose Garden The superlative, so distasteful in the temper ate region, has vivacity in the Eastern speech. A tax-gatherer, says Saadi, fell into a place so dangerous, that from fear, a male lion would become a female. In his compliments to the Shah, he says: The incurvated back of the sky became straight with joy at thy birth. Of dunces he says, with a double\ superlative' If the ass of Christ should go to Mecca, it would come back an ass still. It is a saying from I know not what poet: If the elegant verses of Dhoair Fariabi fall into thy hands, fail not to steal them, though it were in the sacred temple of Mecca itself. But the wild ness of license appears in poetical praises of the Sultan: When his bow moves, it is already the last day (for his enemies): whom his onset singles out, to him is life not appointed; and the ghost of the Holy Ghost were not sure of its time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.