The Festival of Spring
Reading edition
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The Festival of Spring from The Díván of Jeláleddín
Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions
With an Introduction And a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
By William Hastie, D.D. Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow
Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University 1903
'In Depth of Conception, as well as in Loftiness of Flight and Sublimity of Language, Jeláleddín surpasses all the Poets of the East.'
Professor Hermann Ethé.
'The greatest Mystical Poet of any Age.'
Reynold A. Nicholson.
'And all the Breeze of Fancy blows, And every Dew-drop paints a bow, The wizard Lightnings deeply glow, And every Thought breaks out a Rose.'
Tennyson.
This Book with its Sincere Utterances of Love and Friendship towards the Highest is dedicated to
William A. Sanderson, Esq. Byethorne, Galashiels
My ever faithful Friend in Adversity, as in Prosperity
Old Songs are sweetest Old Friends are best