Didactic poem · 1880

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

A philosophical quatrain-sequence in which a desert traveller, Haji Abdu, reflects on faith, fate and the vanity of creeds. Burton's own composition, offered as a rendering from the Persian.

Contents · 9 parts

• I68 lines
• II84 lines
• IIIabout 180 lines
• IVabout 130 lines
• Vabout 110 lines
• VI72 lines
• VII92 lines
• VIIIabout 150 lines
• IXabout 180 lines

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