The rose garden of Persia . ules—the miser counts his heaps,And Fortune crowns him whilst he-^?t! sleeps! K The poem which follows, by Omar Chiam,^•?* is ia a strain of philosophy of a higher order. THE WISDOM OF THE SUPREME. ft ,^1 1 ! 4 All we see—above, around—Is but built on fairy ground:All we trust is empty shadeTo deceive our reason me not of Paradise,Or the beams of houris eyes;Who the truth of tales can tell,Cunning priests invent so well?He who leaves this mortal shore,Quits it to return no more. In vast lifes unbounded tideThey alone content may gain, Who can good from ill
The rose garden of Persia . ules—the miser counts his heaps,And Fortune crowns him whilst he-^?t! sleeps! K The poem which follows, by Omar Chiam,^•?* is ia a strain of philosophy of a higher order. THE WISDOM OF THE SUPREME. ft ,^1 1 ! 4 All we see—above, around—Is but built on fairy ground:All we trust is empty shadeTo deceive our reason me not of Paradise,Or the beams of houris eyes;Who the truth of tales can tell,Cunning priests invent so well?He who leaves this mortal shore,Quits it to return no more. In vast lifes unbounded tideThey alone content may gain, Who can good from ill divide, Or in ignorance abide— All between is restless pain. 76 THE WISDOM OF THE STJPEEME. Before thy prescience^ power divineWliat is this idle sense of mine ?What all the learning,of the schools?What sageSj priests, and pedants?—?Fools! ^ The world is thine, from thee it rose^By thee it ebbs, by thee jt , worldly lore! By whom is^, wisdom shown?The Eternal knows,^^^^ knows all, and He alone!.
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