distich

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The story which inspired it begins at distich No. 972, and is as follows: An observer of spiritual things approached the sea And said �O sea, why are you blue?

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

A. "By writing to his Holiness this distich: 'Laus tua, non tua fraus, virtus, non copia rerum, Scandere te fecit hoc decus eximium.'"

From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various

Furnished with the English letters corresponding to these symbols, one may, if sufficiently curious, translate each distich as one finds it.

From A West Country Pilgrimage by Phillpots, Eden

I myself could have responded to the royal suspiria with one distich.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

I recall from one of these a distich of some merit.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward