Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXII
Omar Khayyam
There was a Door to which I found no Key:
There was a Veil past which I could not see:
Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE
There seemed--and then no more of THEE and ME.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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