The Mind
Firdusi (Speaks)
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
The Mind
FIRDUSI (Speaks).
OH world, with what baseness and guilt thou art rife!
Thou nurtures, trainest, and illest the while.
He only whom Allah doth bless with his smile
Is train'd and is nurtured with riches and life.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Firdusi (Speaks).” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/333/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Firdusi (Speaks).” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/333/.
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