Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain X
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain X
Omar Khayyam
With me along some Strip of Herbage strown
That just divides the desert from the sown,
Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known,
And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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