This poem is taken from PN Review 70, Volume 16 Number 2, November - December 1989.
Two Medieval Persian Poems
Flowers come as a gift
sent down from Paradise,
And in their presence man
lives with a kinder heart -
O Flower Seller selling
flowers for silver, what
Will silver buy more lovely
than that with which you part?
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