Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book Of Travel

· 1926

‘Warum bin ich vergänglich, O Zeus? so fragte die Schönheit. Macht ich doch, sagte der Gott, nur das Vergängliche schön. Und die Liebe, die Blumen, der Tau und die Jugend vernahmens, Alle gingen sie weg weinend von Jupiters Thron.’ ‘Now, a traveller is a creature not always looking at sights--he remembers (how often!) the happy land of his birth; he has, too, his moments of humble enthusiasm about fire and food--about shade and drink.’…

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