Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 39: VERSES FROM SHEH BEHAHI.
A Translation of the Seir Mutaqherin (Haji Mustafa) 39
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"A moral sentence, pronounced in a place of debauch, "Has the full effect of incense burned—against bad air and a malignant eye— "That virtuous man's manner was not like that of the puffed ones of this age. "Amongst so many beauteous ones, I am in love with thy particular air; "I am mad with it; else, there is plenty of beauty elsewhere. "To make a parade of one's learning, he thought to be a very vile action, "And thought that an excellence that produces only pride and vanity, amounts to a satire upon the owner."