Note 321 — Chapter I
David Shea translation
In the Gulshen raz, a poem quoted in our note p. 82, this idea is expressed in several verses, of which the following:
جهان از عقل و نفس و چرخ و اجرام جون يک قطره دان زاغاز و انجام “The world, which is composed of intellect, soul, heavens, and bodies, Know them to be as a drop from beginning to end.”
Room is wanted for quoting, as a curious coincidence with this image, four beautiful strophes of Klopstock, from his ode “Die Frühlingsfeyer,” the Festivity of Spring.—A. T.