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Djeseri Kasim-Pasha, surnamed Safi, or The Speckless
Poems from Oriental Languages: Epigram to a Friend who had Invited the Author to Supper, and Read to Him a Book of his Ghazels
(Arabian—Fifteenth Century)
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Too little salt was in thy songs, too much about thy meats and salads:
In future show a better taste,—take from thy table half the salt,
And put it where ’tis wanted more, in thine insipid batch of ballads.