Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XI
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XI
Omar Khayyam
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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