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Excerpt from Versions From Hafiz: An Essay in Persian Metre It is charaéteristic alike of the slow movement of the East and of the intrinsic greatness of the poet that Hafiz should still be the best-loved singer of all lands where the beautiful Persian tongue is the familiar language of the polite or the vulgar - of all lands, that is, where the Mohammedan tradition now reigns. Hafiz is still chanted by the boatmen of the Ganges and commented upon by the learned of Constantinople, copied in ornate manuscripts for the nobles of Delhi and lithographed for the many in Calcutta and Alexandria at once. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.