Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XLVI
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XLVI
Omar Khayyam
For in and out, above, about, below,
'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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