As quoted in The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton, Vol. II (1893), by Lady Isabel Burton, p. 442
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The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) Terminal Essay: Social Conditions, fn. 13.
Richard Eugene Burton, Memorial Day, And Other Poems (1897), 'So Much to Learn', p. 8
Misattributed
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
“Fools rush where Angels fear to tread!”
Angels and Fools have equal claim
To do what Nature bids them do, sans hope of praise, sans fear of blame!
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
How we love to play with words that please our pride;
Our noble race's mean descent by false forged titles seek to hide! <p> For "gift divine" I bid you read the better work of higher brain,
From Instinct diff'ering in degree as golden mine from leaden vein.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Safely he jogs along the way which "Golden Mean" the sages call;
Who scales the brow of frowning Alp must face full many a slip and fall.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
and the only echo is 'damned fool!... the Devil drives'.
Burton to Lord Houghton as quoted in The Devil Drives: A life of Sir Richard Burton (1984) by Fawn Brodie.
