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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

What puts value on some deed, some thought, some fondly cherished memory of a friend or future hope? Answer you who value give and take, work! love! grief! and pain! Work gives the value to deeds done and undone, love adds her charm as does the twilight to the sun; Grief brings us fear, that subtle mental pain, which binds to earth, till death the knot unties.

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