Wake! For the Sun behind yon Eastern height Has chased the Session of the Stars from Night, And, to the field of Heav'n ascending, strikes The Sultán's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
Omar Khayyám
Cantata by Henry Houseley (1852? - 1925)
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Before the phantom of False morning died Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried: "When all the Temple is prepared within Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?"
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 3, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 3, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 3, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 3, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 8, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 8, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 8, first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 9, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 9, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 10, first published 1879 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling. The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter -- and the Bird is on the wing!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 7, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 7, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 7 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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With me along the strip of Herbage strown That just divides the desert from the sown, Where name of Slave and Sultán is forgot -- And Peace to Máhmúd on his golden Throne!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 11, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 11, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 11, first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Un libro di poesie posato sotto un ramo", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
1 Lehmann : "Ah"
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Some for the Glories of This World; and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; Ah, take the Cash, and let the Promise go, Nor heed the music of a distant Drum!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 13, first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 13, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 13 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 13, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 15, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 14, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 14, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 first edition: "Rose that blows".
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The worldly hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes, or it prospers; and anon Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two -- [is]1 gone.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 14, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 17, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 16, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 16, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Fitzgerald has "was" in the second and third editions.
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Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai, Whose [Portals]1 are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp, Abode his [destined hour]2 and went his way.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 in the first edition alone: "Doorways"
2 in the first edition alone: "Hour or two"
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They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshýd gloried and drank deep, And Bahrám, that great Hunter, -- the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, [but cannot break his sleep]1.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 17, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 19, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 18, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 18, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 in the first edition alone: "and he lies fast asleep"
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[And not]1 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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View original text (without footnotes)1 Lehmann: "Ah, not"
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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled, That [every]1 Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in [her]2 lap from some once lovely head.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 18, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 24, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 19, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 19, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Lehmann: "ev'ry"
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And this [delightful]1 Herb, whose [tender]2 green, Fledges the [River's Lip]3 on which we lean -- Ah, lean upon it lightly! for who knows From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 19, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 25, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 20, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 20, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Houseley, Lehmann: "reviving"
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Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears: To-morrow! Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 20, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 21, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 21, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 21, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 22 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 22, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 23, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 23, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 23, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 23, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 26, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 24, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 24, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Alike [for]1 those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after [some]2 TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There!"
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 24, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 27, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 25, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 25, second, third, fourth editions, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the two Worlds so wisely — they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 26 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about; but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own Hand [wrought to make it]1 grow, And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd -- "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 28, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 31, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 28, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 28, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 first edition: "labour'd it to"
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Into this Universe, and why not knowing, Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing: And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 29, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 32, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 29, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 29, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 30, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 30, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]There was the Door to which I found no Key; There was the Veil through which I might not see; Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE There was — and then no more of THEE and ME.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn: Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal’d And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Then of the THEE IN ME who works behind The Veil, I lifted up my hands to find A Lamp amid the Darkness; and I heard, As from Without -- "THE ME WITHIN THEE BLIND!"
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 34, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 34, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean’d, the Secret of my Life to learn; And Lip to Lip it murmur’d — "While you live, Drink! — for, once dead, you never shall return."
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some [letter]1 of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul return'd to me And answer'd: I myself am Heav'n and Hell.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 66, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 66, first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Lehmann: "secret"
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Heav'n but the vision of fulfilled Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 72, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 67, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 67, first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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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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View original text (without footnotes)2 second edition: "visionary Shapes"
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But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays; And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 69, first published 1879 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There, as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all -- HE knows --- HE knows!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 70 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 51, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 76, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 71, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 71, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it As impotently moves as you or I.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 72 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Perplext no more with Human or Divine, To-morrow's tangle to the winds resign, And lose your fingers in the tresses of The Cypress-slender Minister of Wine.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 41, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 41, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press, End in what All begins and ends in -- Yes; Think then you are TO-DAY what YESTERDAY You were -- TO-MORROW you shall not be less.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 42, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 42, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]So when [the]1 Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff -- you shall not shrink.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 43, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 43, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Houseley, Lehmann: "that"
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[Why,]1 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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View original text (without footnotes)1 Lehmann: "But"
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'Tis but a Tent where takes his one-day's rest A sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrásh Strikes, and prepares it for another guest.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 45, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 45 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Sáki from that Bowl has pour'd Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 46 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]When you and I behind the veil are past Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last -- Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 47 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Yon rising Moon that looks for us again -- How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same Garden -- and for one in vain!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 100, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 100, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass, And in your joyous errand reach the spot Where I made One -- turn down an empty Glass!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 101 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth’s sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 96, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 104, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 96 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse -- if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd, To which the fainting Traveller might spring, As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 97, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 97 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 98, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 98, first published 1872 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]Ah Love! could [thou]1 and I with [Fate]2 conspire To grasp the sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would [not we]3 shatter it to bits -- and then Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 73, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 108, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 99, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 99, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Houseley, Lehmann: "you"
2 third and fourth editions, Houseley: "Him"
3 Houseley, Lehmann: "we not"
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