Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LIII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LIII
Omar Khayyam
With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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