Gather ye rosebuds… in 16th-century Persia

Less journalistic and more philsosophical… at the new British Museum exhibition Shah Abbas, The Remaking of Iran, a poem illuminated by the 16th-century calligrapher Imad al-Hasain, in English translation:

Seize the day, for the world is fleeting,
In the eyes of the wise, the moment is better than the whole world.
Alexander, who ruled the whole world,
At the very moment when he died, left the world.

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