Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 118 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 118: what you’re looking at
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# Page 92 of "Salámán and Absál" This is a page of running prose poetry from what appears to be a literary work titled "Salámán and Absál." The text consists of poetic verses in italics, featuring a dialogue between a student and a Teacher about how a father might recognize his reputed son as he matures. The Master responds with an extended parable comparing a son's resemblance to his father with the way darnel (a weed) grows among wheat in a field—appearing indistinguishable until harvest, when its true nature is revealed. The passage emphasizes how character emerges over time, whether "Good or Evil, Fool or Wise."
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: 92 SALAMAN AND ABSAL. ee eae er He lifted, pardon-pleading, crime-confest, And drew once more to that forsaken Throne, As the stray bird one day will find her nest. One was asking of a Teacher, “ How, a Father his reputed “ Son for his should recognize ?”” Said the Master, ‘* By the stripling, ‘As he grows to manhood, growing “* Tike to his reputed Father, ‘Good or Hvil, Fool or Wise. ** To the disregarded Darnel “ With itself adorns the Wheat-field, “And for all the vernal season ‘ Satisfies the farmer’s eye ; “ But the hour of harvest coming, ‘* And the thrasher by and by, ‘Then a barren ear shall answer, ‘© « Darnel,.and no Wheat, am I.’ ” CORNICLOO