Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, rendered into Engl. verse [by E. Fitzgerald. 2nd version].1868 |
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... Dust into Dust , and under Dust , to lie , Sans Wine , sans Song , sans Singer , and - sans End ! XXVII . Alike for those who for TO - DAY prepare , And those that after some TO - MORROW stare , A Muezzín from the Tower of Darkness ...
... Dust into Dust , and under Dust , to lie , Sans Wine , sans Song , sans Singer , and - sans End ! XXVII . Alike for those who for TO - DAY prepare , And those that after some TO - MORROW stare , A Muezzín from the Tower of Darkness ...
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... Dust . XXX . Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint , and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door as in I went . XXXI . With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow , And with my own ...
... Dust . XXX . Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint , and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door as in I went . XXXI . With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow , And with my own ...
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... Dust ! LXV . If but the Vine and Love - abjuring Band Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand , Alack , I doubt the Prophet's Paradise Were empty as the hollow of one's Hand . LXVI . Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing ...
... Dust ! LXV . If but the Vine and Love - abjuring Band Are in the Prophet's Paradise to stand , Alack , I doubt the Prophet's Paradise Were empty as the hollow of one's Hand . LXVI . Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing ...
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Omar Khayyam. LXIX . Why , if the Soul can fling the Dust aside , And naked on the Air of Heaven ride , Is't not a shame - is't not a shame for him So long in this Clay suburb to abide ! LXX . But that is but a Tent wherein may rest A ...
Omar Khayyam. LXIX . Why , if the Soul can fling the Dust aside , And naked on the Air of Heaven ride , Is't not a shame - is't not a shame for him So long in this Clay suburb to abide ! LXX . But that is but a Tent wherein may rest A ...
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... Dust and Soul LXXXII . The Vine had struck a fibre : which about If clings my Being - let the Dervish flout ; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key , That shall unlock the Door he howls without . LXXXIII . : And this I know whether the ...
... Dust and Soul LXXXII . The Vine had struck a fibre : which about If clings my Being - let the Dervish flout ; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key , That shall unlock the Door he howls without . LXXXIII . : And this I know whether the ...
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Page 6 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries, "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.
Page 22 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Page 23 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him 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!
Page 3 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh ! Wilderness were Paradise enow ! XII " How sweet is mortal Sovrainty ! " — think some ; Others " How blest the Paradise to come!
Page 17 - With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed : And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
Page 5 - And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom...
Page 7 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing ; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Page 29 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 16 - But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Page 4 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.