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FESTUS.-- Oh! there is
A life to come, or all's a dream.
LUCIFER.-- And all
May be a dream. Thou seest in thine, men, deeds,
Clear, moving, full of speech and order; then
Why may not all this world be but a dream
Of God's? Fear not! Some morning God may waken.
FESTUS.--I would it were. This life's a mystery.
The value of a thought cannot be told;
But it is clearly worth a thousand lives
Lik......
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These are modern English translations of Urdu poems by Mirza Ghalib.
Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have struck us as deeply profound ...
Hell, we might have pronounced you a saint,
if only we hadn't found
you drunk
as a skunk!
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Ghazal
by Mirza Ghalib
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. ...
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