C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Mirza-Jussuf
By Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892)
S
How critical a wight ’tis!
The day displeases him,
Because for him too bright ’tis.
Her thorn a sad affront is;
And doesn’t like mankind,
Because its nose in front is.
His bitter bane he passes;
For naught escapes his eyes,
Except that he an ass is.
With Art and Nature too,
By day and night he wanders
Through wastes of misty blue.
With sly and roguish eye,
And makes of all his bitterness
The sweetest melody.