Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered Into English Verse By Edward Fitzgerald
Omar Khayyám
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y XL For I remember stopping by the way To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay : And with its all-obliterated Tongue It murmur'd—" Gently, Brother, gently, pray ! " M, i XLI For has not such a Story from of Old Down Man's successive generations rolFd Of such a clod of saturated Earth Cast by the Maker into Human mould ? 41 m XLII And not a drop that from our Cups we throw On the parcht herbage but may steal below To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye There hidden— far beneath, and long ago.... tei>i4«»>'«^ XLIII As then the Tulip for her wonted sup Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her chalice up, Do you, twin offspring of the soil, till Heav'n To Earth invert you like an empty Cup. XLIV Do you, within your little hour of Grace, The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace. Before the Mother back into her arms Fold, and dissolve you in a last embrace. r«k3r«L>r'»ooi^-:iC;lf-:^ XLV And if the Cup you drink, the Lip you press, End in what All begins and ends in— Yes ; Imagine then you are what heretofore You a;ere— hereafter you shall not be less.
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