Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain VIII
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain VIII
Omar Khayyam
And look--a thousand Blossoms with the Day
Woke--and a thousand scatter'd into Clay:
And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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