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New Rubaei Posted: Quatrain 135 from Rubaiyat of Saadi Shirazi

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Quatrain 135 from Rubaiyat of Saadi Shirazi

Description: English Translation:

Literal:

"I said I would repent from looking at beautiful faces,
hoping that the calamity of love would be averted.

But the more I look at you, O envy of the fairies,
the second glance makes you seem more beautiful than the first."

Poetic:

"I vowed to turn from beauty's tempting sight,
To shield my heart from love's consuming might.

Yet as I gaze on you, a fairy's shame,
Each glance you grow more lovely, still the same."