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1897-1906

  • Behold the garden of the heart, green and moist and fresh, full f buds and roses and ctpresses and jasmines;
  • Boughs hidden by the multitude of leaves, vast plain and high palace hidden by the multitude of flowers.
  • These words, which are from Universal Reason, are the scent of those flowers and cypresses and hyacinths.
  • Didst thou (ever) smell the scent of a rose where no rose was? Didst thou (ever) see the foaming of wine where no wine was? 1900
  • The scent is thy guide and conducts thee on thy way: it will bring thee to Eden and Kawthar.
  • The scent is a remedy for the (sightless) eye; (it is) light-making: the eye of Jacob was opened by a scent.
  • The foul scent darkens the eye, the scent of Joseph succours the eye.
  • Thou who art not a Joseph, be a Jacob: be (familiar), like him, with weeping and sore distress.
  • Hearken to this counsel from the Sage of Ghazna, that thou mayst feel freshness in thy old body: 1905
  • “Disdain needs a face like the rose; when thou hast not (such a face), do not indulge in ill-temper.