Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain I
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain I
Omar Khayyam
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 Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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