by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by William Jones, Sir (1746 - 1794)
On parent knees, a naked new‑born child
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled: So live, that sinking to thy last long sleep, Calm thou may'st smile, while all around thee weep.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Bartlett, John, comp. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed, rev. and enl. by Nathan Haskell Dole. Boston: Little, Brown, 1919; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/100/303.html
Text Authorship:
- by William Jones, Sir (1746 - 1794), no title, subtitle: "From the Persian" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
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