Or this of Omar Chiam:—
"On earth's wide thoroughfares below
Two only men contented go:
Who knows what's right and what's forbid,
And he from whom is knowledge hid."
Or this of Enweri:—
"On prince or bride no diamond stone
Half so gracious ever shone,
As the light of enterprise
Beaming from a young man's eyes."
Or this of Ibn Jemin:—
"Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou
love a life serene:
A woman for thy wife, though she were a
crowned queen;
And, the second, borrowed money, though
the smiling lender say
That he will not demand the debt until the
Judgment Day."
Or this poem on Friendship:—
"He who has a thousand friends has not a
friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him
everywhere."
Here is a poem on a Melon, by Adsched of Meru:—
"Color, taste, and smell, smaragdus, sugar,
and musk,—
Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture
rare,—
If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a
crescent fair,—
If you leave it whole, the full harvest-moon
is there."