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Saadi of Shiraz: Raindrop

“A raindrop, dripping from a cloud, / Was ashamed when it saw the sea. / “Who am I where there is a sea?” it said. / When it saw itself with the eye of humility, / A shell nurtured it in its embrace.”

—Saadi of Shiraz.


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