Persian Poetry Caravan

A Gift from the Garden

for readers of The Rose Garden and the Road

Some lines are worth keeping where you can see them. So are some places.

Below are five plates carrying Saadi’s own lines, five pieces of wall art from the world he walked through, and a journal with a page for every chapter.

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The plates and the journal

• The Saadi Reader’s Gift · PDF Five plates for your wall — the Persian, the English rendering and the source of each — and a journal page for every one of the forty chapters.

The wall art

Five places from the world Saadi walked through. Each prints cleanly at 16 × 24 inches, and still looks right much larger.

• 1 · The Old Persian Garden House The garden, where Saadi tests gratitude before beauty. 2:3
• 2 · The King Mosque The place of devotion, and of the powerful watched by the poor. 4:5
• 3 · Naqsh-e Jahan Square The marketplace and the court, where honesty and power are tested. 4:5
• 4 · Yazd The desert city at the end of the road that teaches humility. 4:5
• 5 · Birds and Flowers Gol o morgh — the rose and the nightingale, the oldest image in Persian verse. 4:5

Check the ratio against your frame before printing — 2:3 suits A-sizes and 12×18, 4:5 suits 8×10 and 16×20. The journal is made to be printed at home and held together with a clip; it is a working notebook, not an object.