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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