Saʿdī Shīrāzī, The Gulistān; Or, Rose Garden, tr. Edward B. Eastwick (London: 1880, 2nd edt.), ch. 1, p. 24:
        The world, my brother! will abide with none, 
        By the world's Maker let thy heart be won. 
        Rely not, nor repose on this world's gain,
        For many a son like thee she has reared and slain. 
        What matters, when the spirit seeks to fly, 
        If on a throne or on bare earth we die?
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