“"'Tis blessed to believe"; you say: The saying may be true enow
And it can add to Life a light: — only remains to show us how.”

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

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British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, … 1821–1890

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