The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-23
ORIENTAL THOUGHT.


teresting, story, while the account of tho
actual climbing itself is most exciting.
ORIENTAL THOUGHT.
For bringing a Diwan of Abu 'l,Ala in
charming and convenient form TO Eng
lish readers, Mr.. Henry Baerlein and
his publishers, E. P. Duttnn g. Co, de.
serve the thanks of all poetry lovers,
says the New York Evening Post In
tho "Wisdom Of the East y series ap.
pears very readable translation of ia
quatrains from the old Syrian poetpbil.
osopher g writings. The collection of.
sets admirably the floods Of Khayyam
and pseudo -Kbayyam whose monotonous
amateurish reflections have long since
palled upon those who look beyond fair
words and the guatrain s siren swing.
Abu l-Ala, who lived n generation be-
fore khayyam, was intensely sincere in
with gentle cynicisnn, wore a garb Of
poetry which no yoluptuary's creed
could down. His fatalism and scorn Of
revealed religion take on a majesty all
their own, These quatrains are not su-
perior to the rest OF the collections
Abandon worship In tho mosque and
From idle prayer. from sacrlhcial
For Destiny will bring the bowl OF
Or bowl OF tribulation-you shall drink
The scarlet eyes of Morning are pur-
BY Night, who growls along the narrow
lane;
But as they crash upon our world the
twain
Devour us and are strengthened for the
feud.
Myself did linger by the ragged beach,
Whereat wave after wave did rise and
And as they fell, they fell saw them
A message far more eloquent than
speech:
1--WE that with song our pilgrimage be-
guile
With purple islands which a sunset
We. sunk upon the desecrating shore.
May parley with oblivion awhile"
The days are dressing all of us In white,
For him who will suspend us in a row.
But for the sun there is no death.
know
The centuries are morsels of tho night.
Here rings the inevitable fatalism of
the East. But soon the sturdy thoughts
OF n courageous, worldly wise man crop
out;
A deed magnanimous. a noble thought
Are as the music singing thro' the
years
When surly Time the tyrant domi-
neers
Against the Lutte whereout of 1t was
wrought
II have harbored love within my breast,
Twas for my comrades Of the dusty
day
Who with me watched the lettering
Whoe bore the burden of the same un-
rest,
For once the witcherIes q maiden flung
Then afterward / knew she was the
bride
OF Death; and as he came. so tender
eyed.
II rebulsed him roundly. being young
Yet IL All things that vanish In their
Are but the part OF some eternal
OF what the nightingale may chance to
dream
Or what the lotus murmurs TO the moon,
When the skeptic speaks, he cannot
stlie his good nature and deep content
ment with life. The note of resignation
Is not taken from a minor scale: man
may be a pitiful fragment, but he can
face his world courageously and there
Ind his happiness:
Lo! there are many ways and many
And many, guides. and which OF them
For verify Mabomet has the sword.
And he may have tho truth-perhapsl
perhaps. |
Now this religion happens TO prevail
Until by that one IT. is overthrown-
Because men dare not live with men |
alone.
But always with another fairy-tale
But over this poor threshold will not |
Because can't unvell her. and alas!
rhe bridal gift l can't afford to pay
Ny faith it is that all the wanton pack
OF living shall be-hush, poor heart!
withdrawn.
AS even to the camel comes a dawn
Without burden for his wounded back.
i've well! Be wary OF this life. say;
Do not o'erload yourself with righteous
Behold! the sword we polish IN ex
cess
We gradually polish It away.
Jay that you come to life as 'twere
Prepared to pay whatever is the bill
or death or tears or-surely, friend,
sot shrink at death. which is among the
least?
,ise up against your troubles. cast away
What Is too great for mortal man TO
bear.
But seize no foolish arms against the
share
Which every mortal person has to pay.
There is no God but Allah,'-that Is
true.
Nor is there any prophet save the
or man who wanders through the dark
TO find
he Paradise that Is In me or you.
USED BY OUR BEST.
Forget it-cast it away "-Haw-
horne s "'Marble Faun.''
"She was respectable old guy. -
hackeray s "Vanity Fair
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