Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XLIII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XLIII
Omar Khayyam
The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice
Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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