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Rh She ransacks mines and ledges

And quarries every rock,

To hew the famous adamant

For each eternal block—

She lays her beams in music,

In music every one,

To the cadence of the whirling world

Which dances round the sun—

That so they shall not be displaced

By lapses or by wars,

But for the love of happy souls

Outlive the newest stars.

SAADI

in groves,

Kine in droves,

In ocean sport the scaly herds,

Wedge-like cleave the air the birds,

To northern lakes fly wind-borne ducks,

Browse the mountain sheep in flocks,

Men consort in camp and town,

But the poet dwells alone.

God, who gave to him the lyre,

Of all mortals the desire,