4. That is to say, orderlies, or 'chaprasis'.
5. Every Hindoo is thoroughly convinced that the names of Ram and his
consort Sita are written on this tree by the hand of God, and nine-
tenths of the Musalmans believe the same.
Happy the man who sees a God employed
In all the good and ill that chequer life,
Resolving all events, with their effects
And manifold results, into the will
And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
COWPER. [W. H. S.]
The quotation is from _The Task_, Book II, line 161.
6. Sadi (Sa'di) is the poetic name, or _nom de plume_, of the
celebrated Persian poet, whose proper name is said to have been
Shaikh Maslah-ud-din, or, according to other authorities, Sharf-ud-
din Mislah. He was born about A.D. 1194, and is supposed to have
lived for more than a hundred years. Some writers say that he died in
A.D. 1292. His best known works are the _Gulistan_ and _Bustan_. The
editor has failed to trace in either of these works the couplet
quoted. Sadi says in the _Gulistan_, ii. 26, 'That heart which has an
ear is full of the divine mystery.
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