Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXX
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXX
Omar Khayyam
What, without asking, hither hurried whence?
And, without asking, whither hurried hence!
Another and another Cup to drown
The Memory of this Impertinence!
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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