Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.
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A Persian Song of Hafiz, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "'T was he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung", Eastwick: Anvari Suhaili. (Translated from Firdousi).William Jones (philologist)
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Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Vereker’s secret, my dear man — the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.
Henry James
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,
Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.James Russell Lowell
I make no doubt... that these rules are simple, artless, and natural.
Blaise Pascal
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!
Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spread
O'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,
And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.William Somervile
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