{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_mes_mes27_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_mes_mes27_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_mes_mes27_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/mes/mes27.htm","summary":"The kings of yore a custom had, so I've been told,\n Of course thou\u2019st heard it;\u2014must remember it, of old,\n On their left hand their champions took their usual place;\n Because the heart is on the left of body's space. Their chancellor and scribes stood on their right hand all;\n In that the writer's art to the right hand doth fall. Before their face the holy teachers stood erect,\u2014\n The mirrors of the soul;\u2014than mirror more correct.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Mesnavi and The Acts of the Adepts: The Book of the M...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1589}