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The Poetry of Sa'di - A Selection by SAADI (1210 - ), translated by Nathan Haskell DOLE (1852 - 1935) Genre(s): Poetry Read by: Algy Pug in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Biography of Sa'di 00:07:44 - 02 - Gulistan, or Rose Garden - Part 1 00:35:10 - 03 - Gulistan, or Rose Garden - Part 2 01:09:12 - 04 - Gulistan, or Rose Garden - Part 3 01:32:05 - 05 - Selections from Bustan, or the Garden of Perfume Shaikh Sa'di, also known as Saadi Shirazi, the nightingale of Shiraz, as Jami poetically calls this gifted poet, was born at Shiraz, the capital of Persia, near the end of the twelfth turns, a student, a water-carrier, a traveller, a soldier fighting against the Christians in the Crusades, a prisoner employed to dig trenches before Tripoli. and an honored poet in his protracted old age at home, — his varied and severe experience took away all provincial tone, and gave him a facility of speaking to all conditions. But the comman
