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STANZAS Or A SONNET, BY SADI. 



Strike, strike the lyre ! let music tell 



The blessings Spring shall scatter round : 

 Fragrance shall float on every gale. 



And opening flow'rets paint the ground 



Oh ! I have past whole nights in sighs, 



Condemn'd the absent fair to mourn ; 

 But she appears — and sorrow flies, 



And pleasure smiles on her return. 



The following dislichs are of a more serious nature, but the 

 niahomedans in general affect piety and morality, and the allusion 

 of the pearls formed from tears, in the last line, is taken from an 

 idea common among the Asiatics, that the pearls found in certain 

 shell-fish are produced from drops of rain-water which they imbibe, 



" Who made manifest the vital and intellectual powers ? 

 Who confirmed the foundation of understanding ? 



Who, into the form of the human frame, breathed his animating spirit : 

 Who bestowed reason, and inspir'd the soul ? 



Who painted with lively colours the cheek of the tulip, 

 And made of the dew-drop an ornament for the rose-bud ? 



Who crowned the summit of the heavens with a diadem of constellations, 

 And ting'd the hard bosom of the ruby with a vivid glow ? 



Who enkindled the fire of the moon as a nocturnal lamp; 



And perfum'd the flower-garden with the fragrance of burning incense ? 



Who spread out the earth on the face of the water, 



And form'd precious pearls from the tears of the clouds ?" 



Such were the entertainments we received from the nabob of 

 Cambay and his vizier, in the true style of Persian elegance and 



