Every Hindoo is thoroughly convinced that the names of Ram and his consort Sita are written on this tree by the hand of God, and nine- tenths of the Musalmans believe the same.
Happy the man who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that chequer life, Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
COWPER.

[W.

H.S.] The quotation is from _The Task_, Book II, line 161.
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Sadi (Sa'di) is the poetic name, or _nom de plume_, of the celebrated Persian poet, whose proper name is said to have been Shaikh Maslah-ud-din, or, according to other authorities, Sharf-ud- din Mislah.

He was born about A.D.1194, and is supposed to have lived for more than a hundred years.