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Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 25

A man whose hands and feet had been amputated killed a millipede and a pious passer-by exclaimed: ‘Praised be Allah! In spite of the thousand feet he possessed he could not escape from a man without hands and feet when his fate had overtaken him. ’ When the life-taking foe comes in the rear Fate ties the legs of a running man. At the moment when the enemy has slowly arrived It is useless to draw the Kayanian bow. THE GULISTAN OF SA'DI Translated by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)