"Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand."

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"A Persian Song of Hafiz", in Grammar (1771) p. 137 and Poems (1772) p. 71. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)