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The Gulistan is divided into eight chapters, each deal ing with a specific subject and partaking of the nature of an essay: although these chapters are composed of disjointed paragraphs, generally beginning with an aphorism or an ance dote and closing with an original poem of a few lines. Some times these paragraphs are altogether lyrical. We are struck, first of all, by the personal character of these paragraphs; many of them relate the experience of the poet in some part of his travels, expressing his comment upon what he had seen and heard. His comments generally take the form of practical wisdom, or religious suggestion. He gives us the impression that he knows life and the human heart thoroughly. It may be said of him, as Arnold said of Sophocles, he was one who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. On the other hand, there is not the slightest trace of cynical acerbity in his writings. He has passed through the world in the independence of a self possessed soul, and has found it all good, saving for the folly of fools and the wretchedness and degradation of the depraved. There is no bitter fountain in the Rose Garden, and the old man's heart is as fresh as when he left Shiraz, thirty years before; the sprightliness of his poetry has only been ripened and tempered to a more exquisite ?avor, by the increase of wisdom and the perfecting of art.
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