Show I 1 persian poet poel laureate kept reasonably buy busy persia appears to be the only other country which has maintained a poet laureate in recent yeam until mu ed din abolished the pot in 1803 the court of teheran bad for or centuries possessed a poet laurQa laur sate te whose duties were far more onerous than those of his british equivalent according to narcisse persia who spent some years in persia at the beginning of the last century court etl prescribed that whenever the shall shah traveled outside the capital his suite should include a dwarf a giant a jester a historiographer and the poet laureate these five being treated on an equal tooting footing among the lesser to his maje pleasure and diversion I 1 the historiographer had bad to record tor for the benefit of posterity all the elie doings and sayings of his master and the laureate was called upon to celebrate a large proportion of these lo in verse U m persia highly approved ot of the custom which lie he found rigidly followed for the sarh knowing that many of his utterances and deoda dededi would be crystallized crystall zed in an ode felt bound on these royal progresses to speak and behave majestically manchester england Gu Guard arnall taa |