Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXII

Omar Khayyam· 1048 – 1131· Persian

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXII

Omar Khayyam

And we, that now make merry in the Room

They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,

Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth

Descend, ourselves to make a Couch--for whom?

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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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