by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust...
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside And naked on the air of Heaven ride, Were't not a shame -- were't not a shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 44, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 44, first published 1872 [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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