Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXIII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXIII
Omar Khayyam
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust Descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer and--sans End!
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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