The rose garden of Persia . THE WATERS OF IMMORTALITY. onoe, when mi/feet were bare, and I had not. money to buy shoes: but I met a man withoutfeet, and became contented with my lot. When a boy be confesses to bave beenreligious oyermuob-; and mentions a judi-cious reproof of bis fatber, on bis ridiculingsome friends wbo fell asleep wbile the Koranwas being read:—You bad better, said be,have been asleep yourself than occupied indiscovering faults in your neighbours. Sadi made the holy pilgrimage no lessthan fourteen times; and so great for sanctity, that his admirerslook upon
The rose garden of Persia . THE WATERS OF IMMORTALITY. onoe, when mi/feet were bare, and I had not. money to buy shoes: but I met a man withoutfeet, and became contented with my lot. When a boy be confesses to bave beenreligious oyermuob-; and mentions a judi-cious reproof of bis fatber, on bis ridiculingsome friends wbo fell asleep wbile the Koranwas being read:—You bad better, said be,have been asleep yourself than occupied indiscovering faults in your neighbours. Sadi made the holy pilgrimage no lessthan fourteen times; and so great for sanctity, that his admirerslook upon him as a saint, and attribute tohim the power of working miracles. Heled the life for some time of a sacayi, orwater-drawer, ia the Holy Land: and wasaccustomed to administer to the wants of thetmraty traveller, tUl at length he was foundworthy of an iatroduction to the prophetKhizr(*^)^a mysterious personage, the sub-ject of endless allusion in Eastern works—_ who moistened his mouth with the watersof immortality. To
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