Friday, March 28, 2008

A Couplet from the Tomb of Hafiz

A beautiful couplet is found on the tomb of the Persian poet Hafiz, and written by the poet himself. This was translated by the great scholar A. J. Arberry:

And if the Holy Ghost descend
In grace and power infinite
His comfort in these days to lend
To them that humbly wait on it,
Theirs too the wondrous works can be
That Jesus wrought in Galilee

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