Editorial note — The Fourteenth New Year’s Feast from the Auspicious Accession

“Luqmān’s cell was small and narrow to boot,

Like the throat of a pipe, or the breast of a lute.

A foolish one said to the grand old man—

‘What house is this—three feet and six span?’

With tears and emotion the sage made reply—

‘Ample for him whose task is to die.’”