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Muslim / Sufi
11th Century

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English version by
Edward FitzGerald

Original Language
Persian/Farsi
[52] And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,

Themes
  Death
  Sky
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam / Translated by Edward FitzGerald
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam / Translated by Peter Avery
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Illustrated Edition), by Omar Khayyam / Translated by Edward FitzGerald
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained, by Paramhansa Yogananda / Edited by J. Donald Walters (Kriyananda)
The Sufism of the Rubaiyat or the Secret of the Great Paradox, by Norton F. W. Hazeldine

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And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
     Lift not thy hands to it for help -- for It
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.

 

 

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

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