I
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of Light.
Omar Khayyám, "Rubáiyát"
Translation Edward Fitzgerald (First Version)
Drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan
Avon pocket-size Books, New York
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