by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Irám indeed is gone with all his Rose
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
Irám indeed is gone with all his Rose And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows, But still a Ruby gushes from the Vine, And many a Garden by the water blows.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 5, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 5, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 5, first published 1868 [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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