Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XV
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XV
Omar Khayyam
And those who husbanded the Golden Grain,
And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain,
Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd
As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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