Compassion

Compassion
Crush not yon ant, who stores the golden grain
He lives with pleasure, and will die with pain.
Learn from him rather to secure the spoil
Of patient cares and persevering toil.

SA’DI Shirazi (1200- 1291)
Verse translation from Persian by:
Sir William Jones (1746 –1794)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadi_%28poet%29
http://www.answers.com/topic/sa-di
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