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Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 19

Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)

I never lamented about the vicissitudes of time or complained of the turns of fortune except on the occasion when I was barefooted and unable to procure slippers. But when I entered the great mosque of Kufah with a sore heart and beheld a man without feet I offered thanks to the bounty of God, consoled myself for my want of shoes and recited:

        ‘A roast fowl is to the sight of a satiated man  
         Less valuable than a blade of fresh grass on the table  
         And to him who has no means nor power  
         A burnt turnip is a roasted fowl.’

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme X XXXX
Characters 569
Words 105
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 4
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