Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LXXIII

Omar Khayyam· 1048 – 1131· Persian

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain LXXIII

Omar Khayyam

Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,

Would not we shatter it to bits--and then

Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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