Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás
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"O thou fresh, slender branch saturated with the abundant..."
 
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O thou fresh, slender branch saturated with the abundant rain of His bounty!

 
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I ask God to continue the heavenly abundant gifts upon thee and to grant thee more freshness, tenderness and fineness day by day. Verily I say unto thee that man is likened unto a tree. And as the life of a tree and its tenderness and brilliancy depend on the abundant rain descending from the clouds, so also the happiness of man, his pleasure, dignity, loftiness of position and highness of rank depend on the abundant bounty of the Kingdom and the light of the Sun of Truth coming from the horizon of the gift of God.