by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
We are no other than a moving row
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with this Sun-illumin'd Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 73, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 68, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 68, 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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