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SECONP DISCOURSE. ON POETS<br />
and only then<br />
after hint for two parasangs* as far as Buruna 1<br />
,<br />
did he put them on rior did he draw rein till<br />
; anywhere he<br />
reached Bukhara, and Rudagi received from the army the doublfe<br />
(<br />
of.that five, thousand dinars:<br />
At Samarqand, in th$ year A.H. 504 f= A.D. mo-mi), I<br />
'heard from the Dihqan Abu Rija Ahmad ibn 'Abdu's-Samad<br />
"<br />
al-'Abidi as follows : My grandfather Abu Rija related that on<br />
this occasion when Rudagi reached Samarqand, he had four<br />
hundred camels laden with his baggage." And indeed that<br />
illustrious man was worthy of this splendid equipment, for no<br />
one has yet produced a successful imitation of that elegy, nor<br />
found means to surmount triumphantly the difficulties {whioii<br />
the subject presents]. Thus the P9et-laureatc Mu'izzi was one<br />
of the sweetest singers and most graceful wits in Persia, for hfs<br />
poetry reaches the<br />
( highest level in beauty and freshness, and<br />
excels in fluency and, charm. Zaynu'1-Mulk Abu Sa'd [ibn] Hindu<br />
ibn Muhammad ibn Hindu of Isfahan 2<br />
requested him ta compose<br />
an imitation of this qasida. Mu'izzi declared his inability to do so,<br />
but, being pressed, produced<br />
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