Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 04

Sa di 1210 (Shiraz) – 1291 (Shiraz)



One day, in the pride of youth, I had travelled hard and arrived perfectly exhausted in the evening at the foot of an acclivity. A weak old man, who had likewise been following the caravan, came and asked me why I was sleeping, this not being the place for it. I replied: ‘How am I to travel, having lost the use of my feet?’ He said: ‘Hast thou not heard that it is better to walk gently and to halt now and then than to run and to become exhausted?’

               O thou who desirest to reach the station  
               Take my advice and learn patience.  
               An Arab horse gallops twice in a race.  
               A camel ambles gently night and day.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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