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Oct 24, 2022
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Here’s a stanza of a poem that everybody in school used to be introduced to, and it may be the most famous stanza of all.  It’s an English translation of the Persian original:

A book of VERSES underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness – 
That wilderness were paradise enow!

“Enow” means “enough,…

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