History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c86.s2.15

v5.c86.s2.15

* Persian poetry is not lacking in melancholy musings on the mutability of things (like what we find in Chaucer and Spenser). We are told that the world is a caravan sarai, a goglet of gold now filled with sweet drink and now with a bitter draught,—the steed of death ever stands ready saddled, &c.