Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator

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The more apples a tree has grown,
The more stones at the tree are thrown.
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Treasure the moment, it will not last;
Only the fool lives in future or past.
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Of your contemporaries be the heart and soul;
Minister to sickly minds and make them whole.
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Goodness is repaid in kind,
As every good man doth find.
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Haste leads to stumbling and delay;
Patience clears the most encumbered way.
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When justice is the corner-stone of power,
A ruined land will soon be made to flower.
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Words can avert calamitous strife,
Words can restore the dead to life.
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