A New Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A 2020 update to the wisdom of the classic collection of Persian Quatrains originally written by Omar Khayyam
around 1100 CE, and first translated into English by William Fitzgerald in 1859. Side-by-side comparison with the original.
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Today's Verse
22
In summer, we make merry mid the flowers
where predecessors whiled away the hours.
We stand or sit on the shoulders of giants.
When we take our leave, who will stand on ours?A Verse from the Original
Verse 31
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate,
And many knots unravel'd by the Road;
But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.