A New Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A 2020 update to the wisdom of the classic collection of Persian Quatrains originally written by Omar Khayyam
around 1100 CE, and first translated into English by William Fitzgerald in 1859. Side-by-side comparison with the original.
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Today's Verse
60
I watched a little while,
and then I caught
that some pots could talk
(though many could not).
A wee impertinent
teacup spoke up,
"Say, who's the Potter,
and who is the pot?"A Verse from the Original
Verse 31
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate,
And many knots unravel'd by the Road;
But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.