If it be pleasent to look on, stalled in the packed serai,
Does not the young man try its temper and pace before he buy?
If SHE be pleasent to look on, what does the young man say?
Lo! She is pleasent to look on, give her to me today!
Pleasent the snaffle of courtship, improving the manners and carriage,
But the colt who is wise will abstain from that terrible thorn-bit of Marriage.
And off course my all time favorite,
If he play, being young and unskillful, for shekels of silver and gold,
Take his money, my son, praising Allah.
The kid was ordained to be sold.
I must admit these are rather cynical. But what the heck there some of my favorite poems ( the maxims of Hafiz by rudyard kipling). Smart man.
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