Did you hear? There was a gourd that grew
twenty days long near a plane tree high;
then it asked; ‘How many days have you?’
Said the plane ‘it’s more than thirty years!’
And the gourd laughed: ‘Look, in twenty days
have I grown so high! Say, what’s old age?’
Said the tree: ‘today, my little gourd,
Is no time for quarrel between us!
Wait! Tomorrow, when the winter storm
Blows we’ll see who is a real man!’
Nasir-i-Khusraw
Reference: MAKE A SHIELD FROM WISDOM
(title is given by me for the convenience of a reader)
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