Soul Food Recipe
Just discovered this today—a passage from the The Gulistan of Saadi by Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi. It was written in 1259, by the way:
Personally I have problems and cares aplenty and mortal goods are only part of it, but I'm going on a fishing trip in less than a week to a faraway tropic isle. I don't know if hyacinths grow there, but I suppose they very well might. I'll carry on hoping so, at any rate.
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store
Two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one and from the dole,
Buy hyacinths to feed the soul.
Personally I have problems and cares aplenty and mortal goods are only part of it, but I'm going on a fishing trip in less than a week to a faraway tropic isle. I don't know if hyacinths grow there, but I suppose they very well might. I'll carry on hoping so, at any rate.
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