moving to outside.ofa.dog quoted The conference of the birds by Farīd al-Dīn Attār (The Penguin classics)
Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the …
It was in China, late one moonless night, The Simorgh first appeared to mortal sight – He let a feather float down through the air, And rumours of its fame spread everywhere; Throughout the world men separately conceived An image of its shape, and all believed Their private fantasies uniquely true!
— The conference of the birds by Farīd al-Dīn Attār, Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār (The Penguin classics) (15%)
...it's almost as if this 12th Century poet anticipated what Western Christians would do to all of Persian poetry centuries later....