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Excerpt from The Beharistan: Abode of Spring About the poet Jami himself a few words are necessary. He has been generally called the last great poet and mystic of Persia, and is said to have combined the moral tone of Sa'di with the lofty aspirations of Jalal-uddin Rumi the graceful ease of Hafiz with the deep pathos of Nizami. He devoted his whole life to literature, and was endowed with such extensive learning that he was supposed to be a com plete master of the Persian language, in which he was certainly one of the most gifted and productive Of writers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.