Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXVIII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XXXVIII
Omar Khayyam
One Moment in Annihilation's Waste,
One moment, of the Well of Life to taste--
The Stars are setting, and the Caravan
Starts for the dawn of Nothing--Oh, make haste!
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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