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
47
At last call, what will be your legacy;
with what stamp will you mark eternity?
When you cash out, whatever you have been,
whatever you are, you will always be.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.