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Shermidededeh

Poems from Oriental Languages: It is All One in the Turkish

I MEDDLE with the Future none; I travel not into the Farness,

And, for all vain desires of mine, still vainer world, I hand them over t’ye:

I sometimes carve, but mostly starve; some scoundrel owns my horse and harness:

I am, Ya Hu, the Sultan of the pillaged Realm of Rags and Poverty.

I work, or don’t: all’s one, that’s clear; when once I am bowstrung, shot, or sabred,

I’ll sleep as soundly, never fear, as though I had ne’er done aught but labored.

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