Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LXIII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LXIII
Omar Khayyam
None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
A Vessel of a more ungainly Make:
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry;
What? did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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