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The Conference of the Birds
The Fourteenth Bird Speaks (1)
Another bird said to the Hoopoe: 'O you who are clearseeing! This that you propose is a worthy aspiration. Though I appear to be weak, in reality I have a noble ardour; though I have little strength, I have a lofty ambition.' The Hoopoe replied: 'If you have but a little of this noble ambition, it will triumph even over the sun. Aspiration is the wings and feathers of the bird of the soul.'
The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (81-90)
He learned birds' language from "what we were taught." But thou art only a bird of the air; understand then That thou hast never seen the true...