Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXVII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXVII
Omar Khayyam
Ah, fill the Cup:--what boots it to repeat
How Time is slipping underneath our Feet:
Unborn TO-MORROW and dead YESTERDAY,
Why fret about them if TO-DAY be sweet!
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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