The Wisdom of the Brahmin

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Excerpt from The Wisdom of the Brahmin: A Didactic Poem, Books I.-ViAs on Monday, he lay in a continuous doze. I sat full of apprehension and anguish at his bedside, when, at a certain moment, opening his eyes, he looked up at me with a roguish smile. Thou art like thy Hafiz to-day, I said to him. (i often teased him at such moments, only to keep myself from weeping.) Thou art always in a kind of intoxication, and yet hast not drunk wine any more than he. I know it full well, he replied, but those were right lovely dreams that I have been passing through. I was already in a heaven. In what one? Ah, I believe I heard the murmur of the fountains of Paradise, he said with deep, full voice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.