by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
And not a drop that from our Cups we...
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
And not a drop that from our Cups we throw For Earth to drink of, but may steal below To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye There hidden -- far beneath, and long ago.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), title 1: "And not a drop that from our Cups we throw", title 2: "Ah, not a drop that from our Cups we throw", appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 39, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 39 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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