The Festival of Spring

PUBLISHED BY
JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW,
Publishers to the University.

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The Festival of Spring
from
The Díván of Jeláleddín

Rendered in English Gazels after Rückert's Versions

With an Introduction And a Criticism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

By
William Hastie, D.D.
Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow

Glasgow
James MacLehose and Sons
Publishers to the University
1903

'In Depth of Conception, as well as in Loftiness of Flight and Sublimity of Language, Jeláleddín surpasses all the Poets of the East.'

Professor Hermann Ethé.

'The greatest Mystical Poet of any Age.'

Reynold A. Nicholson.

'And all the Breeze of Fancy blows,

And every Dew-drop paints a bow,

The wizard Lightnings deeply glow,

And every Thought breaks out a Rose.'

Tennyson.

This Book with its Sincere
Utterances of Love and Friendship
towards the Highest
is dedicated to

William A. Sanderson, Esq.
Byethorne, Galashiels

My ever faithful Friend
in Adversity, as in Prosperity

Old Songs are sweetest
Old Friends are best