As already noted, only three or four of the odes have been rendered in English verse by Miss Bell, Herman Bicknell and Walter Leaf, and of one of them (Agar án Turk-i-Shírází…) the parallel renderings were published in my paper on Persian Literature, to which reference has been already made, together with others. Another ode rendered by the three writers above mentioned is that beginning: * <text in Arabic script omitted>

Of this also, for the sake of comparison, I here reprint the three versions, beginning with Herman Bicknell's, which is as follows: