Be Always flourishing!
Henry David Thoreau
Of the many celebrated trees
which the most High God
has created lofty and umbrageous -
they call none Azad or Free -
Excepting the Cypress - which bears no fruit-
What mystery is there in this?
He replied .
"Each has its own appropriate produce-
and appointed season, during the
continuance of which it is fresh and blooming,
and during their absence , withered and dry;
to neither of which states - is the cypress exposed-
being always flourishing-
and of this nature are the Azads or
religious independents!
Fix not thy hearts on that which is transitory-
for the Diljah or Tigris will continue to
flow through Baghdad after the race of Caliphs is extinct!
If thy hands are plenty, be liberal as the date tree;
but if it affords nothing to give away,
be an azad or free man, like the cypress;