Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LII
Omar Khayyam
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to IT for help--for It
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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