About the poet Jami himself a few words are necessary. He has been generally called the last great poet and mystic of Persia, and is said to have combined the moral tone of Sa'di with the lofty aspirations of Jalal-uddin Rumi the graceful ease of Hafiz with the deep pathos of Nizami. He devoted his whole life to literature, and was endowed with such extensive learning that he was supposed to be a com plete master of the Persian language, in which he was certainly one of the most gifted and productive Of writers.