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Reading edition
BOOKS BY J. A. ZAHM
(H. J. MOZANS)
FROM BERLIN TO BAGDAD AND BABYLON
THE QUEST OF EL DORADO
THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA’S SOUTHLAND
UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA
ALONG THE ANDES AND DOWN THE AMAZON
WOMAN IN SCIENCE
GREAT INSPIRERS
FROM BERLIN TO BAGDAD AND BABYLON
BY
THE REV. J. A. ZAHM, C.S.C., Ph.D., LL.D.
(H. J. MOZANS)
MEMBER OF THE AUTHORS’ CLUB, LA SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DE PHYSIQUE, THE ARCADIA OF ROME, AND OTHER LEARNED SOCIETIES; AUTHOR OF “UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA,” “ALONG THE ANDES AND DOWN THE AMAZON,” “THROUGH SOUTH AMERICA’S SOUTHLAND,” ETC.
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PARAPHRASE OF VERSES FROM SHAIKH SADI
By Edwin Arnold
In many lands I have wandered, and wondered, and listened, and seen; And many my friends and companions, and teachers and lovers have been. And nowhere a corner was there but I gathered up pleasure and gain; From a hundred gardens the rose-blooms, from a thousand granaries grain; And I said to my soul in secret, “Oh thou, who from journeys art come! It is meet we should bear some token of love to the stayers at home; For where is the traveller brings not from Nile the sweet green reed, Or Kashmiri silk, or musk-bags, or coral, or cardamum seed?” I was loath from all that Pleasaunce of the Sun and his words and ways, To come to my country giftless, and showing no fruit of my days: But, if my hands were empty of honey, and pearls and gold, There were treasures far sweeter than honey, and marvellous things to be told. Whiter than pearls and brighter than the cups at a Sultan’s feast, And these I have brought for love-tokens, from the Lords of Truth, in my East.