SA'DI
\sˈadɪ], \sˈadɪ], \s_ˈa_d_ɪ]\
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One of the celebrated Persian poets; born at Shiraz, 1184; died 1291 (?). Besides his "Divan" he wrote "Bustan" or The Fruit Garden (1257), and "Gulistan" or The Rose Garden (1258), his two masterpieces. The "Bustan" is a didactic poem in ten cantos of double rhymed verse, treating of the highest questions of philosophy and religion: it abounds in sound ethical maxims and noble passages of philosophical speculation. The "Gulistan" is in prose, with verses interspersed.
By Charles Dudley Warner
