Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) : "Rubáiyát"


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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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