With Sa'di in Th Garden Author:Edwin Arnold Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: For, in that Court, the stiff-necked Lords of realms Lie low and crownless on His praying-floor! He doth not all at once the sinful slay, Nor drive repentant ... more »runagates away: Albeit an-angered at thy evil doings When thou didst turn He did thy doom unsay. Yet, in the ocean of His knowing, we And all the worlds are bubbles of a sea ; He spies a fault, and spares it. If a son Should vex his sire, hard would forgiving be! And if a kinsman with his kin contends, He spurns them, calling them no longer friends: Nay, and thy slave — grown old and out of use — The past good service no more recommends: When those that had thy heart seem no more dear Better a league away, than living near ! And if a soldier break his banner-oath The Sultan from the roll his name will tear. But He, the Equal Lord of low and high, Doth to no sinful one His grace deny: Ever He spreads His Adeem1 o'er the Earth, His Tray is full for friend and enemy. Yet, had He willed, in way of might, to slay Where livethfoe would be alive this day? Above our hatreds, and unlike our loves He ruleth ! Jinns and men touch not His sway ! His Angels order Man and Bird and Beast, The Fish, the Flies, the largest and the least; 1 A tablecloth of painted leather used by grandees. So plenteous is Sis bounty that the Ant Finds meat, the vast Simurgh1 of Kdf can feast! Goodness and gifts diffusing, feeding these, Because He is creation's Lord, and sees All living things ; and Solitude and State Are His; and His Kingships and Dignities! He sets on this man's head a golden crown, And drags to dust from Empire that one down ; On this man's brow He binds good fortune's turban, And round the other wraps misfortune's gown. He makes the flames a Bower of Gulistan For I...« less