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New Rubaei Posted: Quatrain 113 from Rubaiyat of Saadi Shirazi

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Quatrain 113 from Rubaiyat of Saadi Shirazi

Description: English Translation:

Literal:

"We sell the fruit of a lifetime in a moment,
we sell a hundred sheaves of joy for sorrow.

If a thousand lives are given in an instant,
we would sell them to dust for a moment's sake."

Poetic:

"A lifetime's worth, exchanged for a fleeting breath,
A hundred joys for sorrow, leading to death.

A thousand lives we'd give, if it were so,
To kneel in dust, for love's sweet overthrow."