Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXV
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXV
Omar Khayyam
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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