The rose garden of Persia . ces ofgold shall he thine. But Ferdusi wrote for fame and not forprofit, though he was poor, and dependedonly on his own exertions; hc: resolved to ,accept of no reward till he had completed ,the work he had undertaken, and for thirtyijearg he studied and laboured that his poemmight be worthy of eternal faine. In this\ he succeeded, but the patience of the Shahwas exhausted, his enthusiasm was gone, hisliberality had faded away, and when the sixtythousand couplets of the Slufh Narnali, or Book of Kings, was ended, there was apause, which brought to the poet disappoi
The rose garden of Persia . ces ofgold shall he thine. But Ferdusi wrote for fame and not forprofit, though he was poor, and dependedonly on his own exertions; hc: resolved to ,accept of no reward till he had completed ,the work he had undertaken, and for thirtyijearg he studied and laboured that his poemmight be worthy of eternal faine. In this\ he succeeded, but the patience of the Shahwas exhausted, his enthusiasm was gone, hisliberality had faded away, and when the sixtythousand couplets of the Slufh Narnali, or Book of Kings, was ended, there was apause, which brought to the poet disappoint-ment, and to the monarch such evcrlastmgdisgrace as has obliterated all his triumphs. What must have been the poets feelings,when, after a life of labour, of unabated,enthusiasm, unwearied diligence, and undi-muiished zeal, though he had ;by this timereached the age of eighty yeai-s, he found the announcement of his great epics completion ,coldly received! Incautious, even morethan is usual with his rhymuig,race, was the.
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