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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXIV

Omar Khayyam· 1048 – 1131· Persian

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXIV

Omar Khayyam

Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn

My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn:

And Lip to Lip it murmur'd--"While you live,

Drink!--for once dead you never shall return."

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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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