Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXI
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXI
Omar Khayyam
Up from Earth's Centre through the seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many Knots unravel'd by the Road;
But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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