Islam

Shabistari, Secret Rose Garden, Exhortation

Though the world is yours, you remain dejected,
Who so pitiable as you?
You, who are a man, arise and pass on,
Wait not day or night at the halting-stages,
Tarry not behind your fellow-travellers and the
caravans.

Source Shabistari, Gulshan-i Raz (Le Jardin secret des roses), trad. Florence Lederer (1920), archive.org secretrosegarden00shabiala (OCR corrigé) · Contents