Monday, March 2, 2015

Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) : "Rubáiyát"


                            IV


Now the New Year reviving all Desires,

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,

   Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough

Puts out , and Jesus from the Ground suspires.







Omar Khayyám, "Rubáiyát"
Translation Edward Fitzgerald (First Version)
Drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan
Avon pocket-size Books, New York

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