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[22] And we, that now make merry in the Room

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(11th Century) Timeline

English version by
Edward FitzGerald

Original Language
Persian/Farsi

Muslim / Sufi
11th Century

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?

 

 

-- from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam / Translated by Edward FitzGerald

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Themes

  Lotus
  Rose
  Spring Blossom
 
 


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