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1 " He is like light and wisdom is his Gabriel. "
― Franklin D. Lewis , Rumi: Past and Present, East and West
2 " Twain had already traveled himself to the Middle East in 1867, the experience of which he details in The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim’s Progress (1869), and from the 1870s was much captivated by a different Persian poet, cOmar Khayyam, whose Rubáiyát Twain described as “the only poem I have ever carried about with me. "
