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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2. THE MELON-SELLER. Going his rounds one day in Ispahan,— Half-way on Dervishhood, not wholly there,— Ferishtah, as he crossed a certain bridge, Came startled on a well-remembered face. " Can it be ? What, turned melon-seller—thou ? Clad in such sordid garb, thy seat yon step Where dogs brush by thee and express contempt ? Methinks, thy head-gear is some scooped-out gourd! Nay, sunk to slicing up, for readier sale, One fruit whereof the whole scarce feeds a swine ? Wast thou the Shah's Prime Minister, men saw Ride on his right-hand while a trumpet blew And Persia hailed the Favorite ? Yea, twelve years Are past, I judge, since that transcendency, And thou didst peculate and art abased ; No less, twelve years since, thou didst hold in hand Persia, couldst halve and quarter, mince its pulp As pleased thee, and distribute—melon-like— Portions to whoso played the parasite, Or suck—thyself—each juicy morsel. How Enormous thy abjection,—hell from heaven, Made tenfold hell by contrast! Whisper me ! Dost thou curse God for granting twelve years' bliss Only to prove this day's the direr lot ? " Whereon the beggar raised a brow, once more Luminous and imperial, from the rags. " Fool, does thy folly think my foolishness Dwells rather on the fact that God appoints A day of woe to the unworthy one, Than that the unworthy one, by God's award, Tasted joy twelve years long ? Or buy a slice, Or go to school !" To school Ferishtah went; And, schooling ended, passed from Ispahan To Nishapur, that Elburz looks above —Where they dig turquoise : there kept school himself, The melon-seller's speech, his stock in trade. Some say a certain Jew adduced the word Out of their book, it sounds so much the same, jnrrTWO But great wits jump. Wish no...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780548111222
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 458 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0548111227
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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