Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain VII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain VII
Omar Khayyam
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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