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CERTAIN MAXIMS OF HAFIZ
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If He play, being young and unskilful, for shekels of silver and gold,
Take His money, my son, praising Allah. The kid was ordained to be sold.
10
With a "weed" among men or horses verily this is the best,
That you work him in office or dog-cart lightly—but give him no rest.
11
Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage,
But the colt who is wise will abstain from the terrible thorn-bit of Marriage;
12
As the thriftless gold of the babul so is the gold that we spend
On a Derby Sweep, or our neighbour's wife, or the horse that we buy from a friend.
