of self and the knowledge of God only. Second,
that Jami had a very decided sense of humour,
strongly in evidence in the " Sixth Garden " of
his Balidristdn, so delightfully entitled :
" Blowing
of the zephyrs of wit and the breezes of jocular
sallies, which cause the buds of the lips to laugh
and the flowers of the hearts to bloom." From
these two things alone we might have expected
a finer and nobler character. We must be,
however, content with the life of a great literary
egoist, abandon sentiment, and remember only
that he has left to posterity the most polished of
Persian poetry.