"Of old the sacred Koran did they cite, They named the verse and chapter ever blest, And each good Mussulman, as was but right, Reverenced, and felt his conscience was at rest. The modern Dervish nothing better knows, But prates of old and new with endless zest; Each day our most admired disorder grows. O sacred Koran! O eternal rest!"
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The West–Eastern Divan, translated by Edward Dowden, VI. Book of Maxims, p. 75.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749 – 1832
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