by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
None answer'd this; but after Silence...
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
None answer'd this; but after Silence spake A Vessel of a more ungainly Make: "They sneer at me for leaning all awry; "What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake!"
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 63, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 93, first published 1859 [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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